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FRESNO COUNTY, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - The Fresno County Sheriff's Office reported 2 carnivore sightings successful the region successful a small implicit 1 week - 1 successful Selma and different successful Clovis. Because of the incidents, the sheriff's bureau is advising residents connected what to bash if they brushwood a carnivore successful their backyard.
On Friday, the Selma Police Department reported that 1 of its officers saw a achromatic carnivore connected the escaped successful the country of Dinuba Avenue and Wright Street. As of Friday afternoon, that carnivore has not been found.
The sheriff's bureau besides said they responded to a achromatic carnivore sighting successful Clovis connected May 1. Upon arrival, deputies reported uncovering a achromatic carnivore adjacent a tree. A California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist responded and tranquilized the bear, which was aboriginal transported to Shaver Lake and released into the wild.
Officials with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife said these sightings mightiness beryllium occurring due to the fact that of bears who roam from their mothers and "lose their bearings" and upwind up acold from the forest, successful much municipality areas.
This could hap erstwhile the carnivore and its parent abstracted arsenic they question caller territories to marque their homes; however, they often tally into older bears that pursuit them off.
The Fresno County Sheriff's Office advises residents that if they brushwood a carnivore successful their neighborhood, they should telephone instrumentality enforcement, fixed that they tin coordinate a effect with the CDFW and safely region the bear.
Additionally, sheriff's officials counsel residents to destruct each attractants, similar unsecured garbage and favored food, from their spot to debar attracting bears.
