{"id":670622,"date":"2026-03-21T03:47:18","date_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:47:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/670622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-21T03:47:18","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T03:47:18","slug":"vermont-bears-emerging-from-hibernation-officials-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/670622\/","title":{"rendered":"Vermont bears emerging from hibernation, officials warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont wildlife officials say they are already getting reports of bears emerging from hibernation and that it is time to bear-proof yards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Vermont Fish and Wildlife recommends taking down bird feeders, keeping trash in bear-resistant containers, and putting chickens and bees behind electric fencing or a bear-proof enclosure.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\"><a href=\"https:\/\/vtfishandwildlife.com\/learn-more\/living-with-wildlife\/living-with-black-bears#:~:text=Vermonters%20must%20take%20reasonable%20measures,feed%20bears%2C%20deliberately%20or%20accidentally.\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/vtfishandwildlife.com\/learn-more\/living-with-wildlife\/living-with-black-bears#:~:text=Vermonters%20must%20take%20reasonable%20measures,feed%20bears%2C%20deliberately%20or%20accidentally.\">Wildlife officials are also asking Vermonters to submit reports of bears engaging in potentially dangerous behavior.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 WCAX. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) &#8211; Vermont wildlife officials say they are already getting reports of bears emerging from hibernation&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":670623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[3425,10809,990,150445,50,159,67,132,68,2742,47139,837],"class_list":["post-670622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-bears","tag-food","tag-hibernation","tag-news","tag-science","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-vermont","tag-wcax","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116265120188469946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670622","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=670622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/670622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/670623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=670622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=670622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=670622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}