{"id":43837,"date":"2025-07-06T16:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/43837\/"},"modified":"2025-07-06T16:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-06T16:58:08","slug":"blaine-county-alerts-residents-after-bear-cub-sighting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/43837\/","title":{"rendered":"Blaine County alerts residents after bear cub sighting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">KETCHUM, Idaho (KMVT\/KSVT) \u2014 The Blaine County Sheriff\u2019s Office advised residents to stay alert after a bear cub sighting on the Fourth of July.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The cub was found in a tree in the backyard of a residence in Western Ketchum, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1awRjPpb5b\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/share\/p\/1awRjPpb5b\/\">according to the sheriff\u2019s office.<\/a> The Idaho Fish and Game Department was alerted, but said the bear does not currently pose a threat as long as it is left alone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office reminded residents in Blaine County to stay \u201cbear aware,\u201d advising people never to approach, feed or take pictures with a bear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Idaho Fish and Game <a href=\"https:\/\/idfg.idaho.gov\/article\/avoid-bear-conflicts-storing-food-and-garbage-properly\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/idfg.idaho.gov\/article\/avoid-bear-conflicts-storing-food-and-garbage-properly\">regularly reminds people<\/a> to secure garbage, empty bird feeders, clean up fallen fruit and feed pets inside to avoid attracting bears. Not doing so could lead to bears becoming food-conditioned and potentially causing conflicts with people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The sheriff\u2019s office issued similar advice, encouraging Blaine County residents to help keep the bear safe as it wanders back to the woods.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KMVT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"KETCHUM, Idaho (KMVT\/KSVT) \u2014 The Blaine County Sheriff\u2019s Office advised residents to stay alert after a bear cub&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":43838,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10808,10809,34197,13670,34195,34196,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-43837","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-bear-sighting","9":"tag-bears","10":"tag-blaine-county","11":"tag-idaho","12":"tag-ketchum","13":"tag-ketchum-idaho","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us","18":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114807355139972190","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43837","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=43837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}