{"id":856717,"date":"2026-09-22T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856717\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T15:16:08","slug":"bear-encounters-are-rising-across-the-united-states-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/856717\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear encounters are rising across the United States. Here\u2019s why."},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"ZXZD5JHMBBCB3M4ECRL2HRGSEQ\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">They climb through bedroom windows and open car doors. They sneak into restaurants, fire stations and vacation rentals. Across the country, black bears are foraging for food. <\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"KYVS2VAO7NHOVCWPWA34T6WHFE\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">Human-bear encounters are on the rise this year in at least 15 states. Across the West, Northeast and Southeast, agencies received more bear-related calls than last year. In Colorado, reports have increased by as much as 200 percent, and in Utah, bears in cities have reached a record high.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"They climb through bedroom windows and open car doors. They sneak into restaurants, fire stations and vacation rentals.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":856718,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[79,201],"class_list":["post-856717","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\/856717","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=856717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/856717\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/856718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=856717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=856717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=856717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}