{"id":20237,"date":"2025-06-27T22:46:08","date_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20237\/"},"modified":"2025-06-27T22:46:08","modified_gmt":"2025-06-27T22:46:08","slug":"black-bear-spotted-in-champaign-county-whio-tv-7-and-whio-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/20237\/","title":{"rendered":"Black bear spotted in Champaign County \u2013 WHIO TV 7 and WHIO Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">CHAMPAIGN COUNTY \u2014 A black bear has been spotted in another Miami Valley county. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\"><b>[DOWNLOAD: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whio.com\/mobile-apps\/\"><b>Free WHIO-TV News app for alerts as news breaks<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The Ohio Department of Natural Resources confirmed a black bear sighting along Thackery Road in Urbana. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">Black bears have been spotted across several counties, including Ashtabula, Clark, Clinton, Greene, Licking, Richland, Guernsey, and Montgomery. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\"><b>TRENDING STORIES:<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">ODNR emphasized that black bears are protected under Ohio\u2019s endangered species list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">The organization has been unable to confirm if the black bear sightings are all the same animal. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">There are no plans to catch or relocate the bear; ODNR believes it will likely move out of the area on its own. <\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\"><b>[SIGN UP: <\/b><a href=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/membercenter.whio.com\/newsletters\"><b>WHIO-TV Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/b><\/a><b>]<\/b><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph\">\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-sc-tl066j-0 lofITx body-paragraph body-copyright\">\u00a92025 Cox Media Group<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CHAMPAIGN COUNTY \u2014 A black bear has been spotted in another Miami Valley county. [DOWNLOAD: Free WHIO-TV News&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20238,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[4749,3425,2418,11651,18844,7026,2416,2625,18845,2147,18856,18846,18847,18848,18849,6158,18850,6128,18851,1759,2824,18852,159,67,132,68,9272,18853,18854,837,18855],"class_list":{"0":"post-20237","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-animal","9":"tag-animals","10":"tag-bear","11":"tag-big","12":"tag-biodiversity","13":"tag-black","14":"tag-black-bear","15":"tag-brown","16":"tag-brown-bear","17":"tag-canada","18":"tag-canadian-wildlife","19":"tag-carnivore","20":"tag-claws","21":"tag-cub","22":"tag-danger","23":"tag-dangerous","24":"tag-forest","25":"tag-fur","26":"tag-mammal","27":"tag-nature","28":"tag-outdoors","29":"tag-predator","30":"tag-science","31":"tag-united-states","32":"tag-unitedstates","33":"tag-us","34":"tag-wild","35":"tag-wild-animal","36":"tag-wilderness","37":"tag-wildlife","38":"tag-zoo"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114757761948019208","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20237"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20237\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20238"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20237"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20237"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20237"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}