{"id":887392,"date":"2026-10-19T05:44:11","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T05:44:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887392\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T05:44:11","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T05:44:11","slug":"bears-out-of-middlebury-tree","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/887392\/","title":{"rendered":"Bears out of Middlebury tree"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0d0c3c16-5d4e-4677-a272-daeb1c66989f_1732118383.file.png\" width=\"48\" height=\"48\" alt=\"Isabel Meara\" loading=\"lazy\"\/>MIDDLEBURY, Vt. \u2014<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"1\"> A mama bear and her two cubs are out of a tree after being stuck for 2 days.<\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"2\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/19UwFdB9Lb\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Middlebury Police Department<\/a> says a mama bear and her two cubs are stuck in a tree at the intersection of Main St. and N. Pleasant St. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"3\">Police and Vermont Fish and Game asked people to avoid the area to give the bears more space. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"4\">&#8220;These are wild animals that do not want to interact with people and will tend to stay in a tree longer if people are gathering in the area,&#8221; said police. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"5\">Bystanders tell NBC5 that the bear has been stuck there since Saturday morning. <\/p>\n<p data-node-id=\"6\">Video shows the cubs trying to come down but getting spooked back into the tree due to people in the area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MIDDLEBURY, Vt. \u2014 A mama bear and her two cubs are out of a tree after being stuck&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":887393,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[14854,7438,372164,16638,39544,84414,61253,275,372165,5460,50307,292191,4882,10334,372160,372161,372166,132383,372162,3590,6087,79,7246,167639,372163,201],"class_list":["post-887392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-area","tag-bear","tag-bear-caught-in-tree","tag-black-bear","tag-bystander","tag-caught-on-video","tag-cub","tag-day","tag-downtown-middlebury","tag-game","tag-intersection","tag-main-st","tag-main-street","tag-mama-bear","tag-middlebury","tag-middlebury-police","tag-n-pleasant-st-police","tag-nbc5","tag-north-pleasant-street","tag-people","tag-saturday-morning","tag-science","tag-tree","tag-vermont-fish","tag-vermont-fish-and-game","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887392","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=887392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/887392\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/887393"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=887392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=887392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=887392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}