It was a year ago Easter Sunday when a black bear decided to hang out in Virginia Beach. For hours, viewers watched as he hung out in a tree in the Shadow Lawn area.
Game and wildlife fisheries had to shoot him with a tranquilizer and eventually brought him down.
In November, it was Suffolk where a mother bear and her two cubs were playing along Highway 58.
The mother was hit and killed.
The two bear cubs were taken to the Virginia Wildlife Center where one died.
The other was eventually released.
Now to help keep a bear out of your backyard, don’t store food outside.
That includes pet food, bird feeders, and compost piles.
Keep trash cans inside and only take it to the curb on the day of trash pick-up.
If you see a bear, don’t approach it or try to feed it.
Call the Virginia Game Department.
Always be on the look-out for bears.
