{"id":463658,"date":"2025-12-22T04:52:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:52:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463658\/"},"modified":"2025-12-22T04:52:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T04:52:14","slug":"biologists-capture-bear-in-altadena-nbc-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/463658\/","title":{"rendered":"Biologists capture bear in Altadena \u2013 NBC Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Biologists safely captured a bear in Altadena \u2013 but not the one that\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbclosangeles.com\/news\/local\/altadena-bear-crawlspace\/3809935\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">taken up residence in a homeowner\u2019s crawlspace.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The California Department of Fish and Wildlife helped an Altadena homeowner who\u2019s been troubled by the presence of a bear in his crawlspace set up a trap in hopes of capturing the wild animal. Biologists with the department placed the trap outside the house of Ken Johnson but inadvertently caught a different bear on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat bear was processed, tagged, and released to a nearby suitable habitat Wednesday afternoon,\u201d the department said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p>The race to capture the fuzzy squatter began last month after Johnson noticed some items on his property being moved around. After installing a camera on the side of his house, the homeowner noticed a black bear roaming through his property. Then, he saw his crawlspace\u2019s screen ripped open.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen I saw it all torn up, I thought, \u2018He must not be under there,\u2019 because there is no way a bear could fit,\u201d Johnson said.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tAn Altadena homeowner who\u2019s been dealing with a bear in his crawlspace says a second bear has appeared on his property. Tracey Leong reports for the NBC4 News at 11 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>With some tenacity and a bit of a squeeze, the bear managed to wedge itself into Johnson\u2019s crawlspace and has made itself comfortable in there since. Occasionally, the 500-pound animal has been seen leaving the crawlspace but it always returns.<\/p>\n<p>Johnson and the department are still working on trying to coax it out and capture it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 our biologists went to the site and attempted to use hazing techniques to draw the bear out from the crawlspace, but the bear did not come out,\u201d the department said in its statement. \u201cOur biologists have continued to stay in close contact with the homeowner through this process and will continue to do so.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Biologists safely captured a bear in Altadena \u2013 but not the one that\u2019s taken up residence in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":463659,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[21053,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-463658","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-altadena","9":"tag-science","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us","13":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115761430064029004","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463658","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=463658"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/463658\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/463659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=463658"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=463658"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=463658"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}