{"id":798985,"date":"2026-08-02T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798985\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T08:44:26","slug":"bear-sighted-in-lincoln-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/798985\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear sighted in Lincoln County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">LINCOLN COUNTY, Idaho (KMVT\/KSVT) \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FQM8dxoUL\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1FQM8dxoUL\/\">The Lincoln County Sheriff\u2019s Office<\/a> received a report of a bear near 520 N. and 350 E.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Residents and travelers in the area are urged to keep children and pets close and supervised. The sheriff\u2019s office said people should not approach or feed the bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office also advised residents to secure garbage, pet food, bird feeders and other items that may attract wildlife.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who encounters the bear should remain calm, give it plenty of space, slowly back away and not run.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office said it is monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Anyone who sees the bear, especially if it is acting aggressively or remains in a residential area, should contact the Lincoln County Sheriff\u2019s Office immediately and provide its location.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KMVT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LINCOLN COUNTY, Idaho (KMVT\/KSVT) \u2014 The Lincoln County Sheriff\u2019s Office received a report of a bear near 520&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":798986,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[339198,339197,7438,16403,339196,79,201],"class_list":["post-798985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-350-e","tag-520-n","tag-bear","tag-lincoln-county","tag-lincoln-county-sheriffs-office","tag-science","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798985","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=798985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/798985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/798986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=798985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=798985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=798985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}