To the editor: In your article about the bear problems in Sierra Madre, Erinn Wilson, regional supervisor for the California Division of Fish and Wildlife, is reported as saying that the conduct of those bears is a results of folks transferring deeper into the wildlands the place bears reside.
What she conveniently not noted, as she does any time she discusses the issue, is that these bears usually are not native to the mountains of Southern California. The state itself imported black bears from the Yosemite space practically 100 years in the past — at a time when bear searching was a factor.
Nicely, bear searching has since gone out of style, and left unmanaged by the Division of Fish and Wildlife, the bear inhabitants continues to develop. There are actually far larger numbers of bears than could be sustained by their pure meals sources within the wilderness, in order that they intrude into populated areas.
Sure, the bears are intruding into folks’s territory.
Until the state steps up and does one thing about the issue it created, this case will proceed to worsen.
Don Handley, Sierra Madre
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To the editor: I used to be disenchanted that the article about these intelligent bears didn’t point out whether or not the doorways they have been in a position to open have been really locked.
After residing most of my life in West L.A., I moved to the foothills and discovered fairly shortly that we will coexist peacefully with bears and deer.
Furthermore, the primary time I wakened in the midst of the night time to the sound of rustling in my yard, I used to be relieved to see that it was only a bear and never a human.
Eduardo Delgado, Moorpark
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To the editor: The declare that bears within the mountains close to Sierra Madre have discovered to open home and automotive doorways is predicated on statements from a metropolis legal professional, who additionally claimed he didn’t know the way it was taking place.
It’s extra probably that if the animals are studying something, it’s the best way to enter buildings and autos which can be open or unlocked.
If that’s the case, it’s the human conduct that’s at fault.
Dave Suess, Redondo Seashore
