The Arizona Game and Fish Department is warning residents in some southern Arizona communities to be on the lookout for a bear.<\/p>\n
Officials say the same black bear has been spotted in Green Valley and Sahuarita, two communities south of Tucson.<\/p>\n
Mark Freiberg with Game and Fish said the bear is likely just passing through and unlikely to become a nuisance. He said trash or pet food could attract bears and should be kept inside.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf a bear or wildlife in general find food that’s being left out by the public, they may sit there and stay at that spot and that can become problematic,\u201d Freiburg said.<\/p>\n
Freiberg said if the bear becomes problematic, it could be trapped, tranquilized and relocated. If it becomes dangerous, it may be put down, he said.<\/p>\n
He said bears tend to wander into populated areas when it’s hot and dry.<\/p>\n
Freiberg asks the public to report any bear sightings to Game and Fish at 623-236-7201.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Arizona Game and Fish Department is warning residents in some southern Arizona communities to be on the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":684914,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-684913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=684913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/684913\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/684914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=684913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=684913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=684913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}