Alarm in Lake Tahoe after posters found encouraging people to feed the bears

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LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (KGO) -- Alarm is rising successful Lake Tahoe this week implicit a flyer recovered posted astir the area. It calls for attraction to the section carnivore population, saying things similar "the achromatic bears of Lake Tahoe are immoderate of the astir marginalized and oppressed taxon of life."

It goes connected to say, "they walk astir of their beingness going from garbage tin to garbage tin uncovering it locked owed to selfish, heartless quality beings...leaving the carnivore with perfectly nary prime but to starve to decease oregon effort a location invasion."

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Finally, the flyer calls connected radical to "actually provender the bears."

"After my archetypal read, I couldn't adjacent decide, is this immoderate benignant of sick gag that someone's trying to play connected the community?" said Toogee Sielsch.

Sielsch is simply a section Tahoe carnivore expert, who says the accusation successful the flyer is false.

He tells ABC7 News connected Wednesday helium saw dozens of them posted astir South Lake Tahoe and began taking them down.

"I lone pulled astir two-thirds of them down arsenic I went done municipality and it took maine 2 hours," Sielsch said.

After my archetypal read, I couldn't adjacent decide, is this immoderate benignant of sick gag that someone's trying to play connected the community?

Toogee Sielsch, Tahoe carnivore expert

Experts accidental these flyers aren't conscionable afloat of misinformation. They accidental if radical instrumentality them seriously, they could origin agelong word harm to the Tahoe carnivore population.

Peter Tira of California Fish and Wildlife says he's alert of the flyers and that his section is telling radical not to travel them.

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Tira says feeding bears quality nutrient yet causes harm to some the animals and people.

"They look for it, go addicted to it, go babelike connected it, and their behaviour changes. It gets much brazen. We spot it escalate," Tira said.

Fish and Wildlife is 1 of respective organizations that has called retired the posters successful caller days.

Experts accidental bears are perfectly susceptible of surviving connected their ain and amended disconnected without quality handouts.

Ann Bryant, of the Bear League, says the flyers are antithetical to the values held by astir Tahoe residents.

"It's disgusting and it's against everything environmentally affable and pro-bear," Bryant said.

That's wherefore adjacent though nary 1 knows wherever the flyers came from, she's determined to find out.

"We've got 250 volunteers and 3000 members and I'm going to enactment everybody connected heightened alert to find retired who's doing this."

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