{"id":763397,"date":"2026-07-15T00:50:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763397\/"},"modified":"2026-07-15T00:50:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-15T00:50:10","slug":"vermont-fish-and-wildlife-seeks-person-who-shot-black-bear-near-newbury","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/763397\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont Fish and Wildlife seeks person who shot black bear near Newbury"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">NEWBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont Fish and Wildlife is searching for the person who shot a black bear and dumped its body in the Connecticut River.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Authorities say the mother bear was found near the Newbury Crossing fishing area, and there are indications she has cubs. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Game Warden Lt. Mike Smith says this is a strange case and it could be related to the bear destroying property. \u201cWe can help manage black bear conflict, and under certain circumstances a bear can be killed in defense of property, but there are requirements for folks who do that. First and foremost, they have to notify state police dispatch, and they\u2019ll get the message to us,\u201d Scott said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Fish and Wildlife reminds people to take in their bird feeders and protect livestock to deter bears. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone with information about the incident is asked to call the Vermont State Police in St. Johnsbury at 802-748-3111 or <a href=\"https:\/\/vsp.vermont.gov\/prevention\/tipsubmit\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/vsp.vermont.gov\/prevention\/tipsubmit\">submit a tip online.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEWBURY, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont Fish and Wildlife is searching for the person who shot a black bear&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":763398,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[7438,21621,3,79,27076,68894,34752,201],"class_list":["post-763397","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear","tag-killed","tag-news","tag-science","tag-vermont","tag-vt","tag-wcax","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763397","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=763397"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/763397\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/763398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=763397"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=763397"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=763397"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}