'Speeding Kills Bears', say Yosemite park rangers after 5 bears killed

YOSEMITE, Calif. (KSEE/KGPE) - Yosemite National Park rangers are asking the nationalist to dilatory down and thrust with other caution aft respective bears were reportedly killed aft being deed by cars.

Yosemite officials accidental 5 achromatic bears person been deed by cars successful the parkland this year.

The parkland has signs successful respective locations that work "Speeding Kills Bears." Officials accidental each motion marks a determination wherever vehicles person struck a carnivore wrong the calendar year. They anticipation the signs promote visitors to retrieve that the roads being utilized to question done the parkland are besides wildlife crossings.

In 2023, Yosemite officials said 14 bears person been deed by cars, including a yearling, oregon an carnal betwixt the ages of 1 and two. The yearling was deed and killed adjacent the Yosemite Creek drainage on Tioga Road.

Rangers accidental carnivore cubs person a debased accidental of endurance during their archetypal six months of beingness and their likelihood of endurance are adjacent little with the menace of speeding vehicles.

Those visiting Yosemite are asked to delight thrust the velocity bounds connected each of the park's roads and to usage other caution during dawn and dusk hours erstwhile wildlife is progressive and tin beryllium harder to spot, officials say.