SARATOGA SPRINGS\u00a0\u2014 Was a bear roaming around Regent Street on Tuesday? The state Department of Environmental Conservation didn\u2019t find one, but says that it wouldn\u2019t be unusual at this time of year.<\/p>\n
A DEC environmental conservation officer responded to Regent Street in Saratoga Springs around 6 a.m. on Tuesday after the department received reports about a possible bear sighting there. The officer searched the area and other neighborhoods nearby, but didn\u2019t find a bear, according to the DEC. The department didn\u2019t receive any more reports of sightings.<\/p>\n
It would\u2019ve been at least the second time a bear was spotted in the region this year. A young black bear was captured on Second Avenue in Albany last month and released\u00a0in the Catskills.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis time of year, young bears, particularly 1-year-old males, disperse from the area of their birth,\u201d the department said in a statement Wednesday. \u201cThey may move several dozen miles in this process, and occasionally they wind up in unusual spots, like an urban neighborhood.\u201d<\/p>\n
Jeremy Hurst, a DEC wildlife biologist, told the Times Union last month that there are between 6,000 and 8,000 bears throughout the state. Most live in the Adirondacks and Catskills.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not uncommon that we have bears come up here into suburban places,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n
The department asks that those who see a bear call 911 if that bear poses \u201can immediate risk to public safety.\u201d If it\u2019s not an emergency, spotters can call a DEC regional wildlife office or the DEC\u2019s dispatch center at 1-844-332-3267.<\/p>\n
Wendy Liberatore contributed reporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SARATOGA SPRINGS\u00a0\u2014 Was a bear roaming around Regent Street on Tuesday? The state Department of Environmental Conservation didn\u2019t…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":795636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[275397,425,324666,159,67,132,68,837],"class_list":{"0":"post-795635","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-wildlife","8":"tag-latestnews","9":"tag-local","10":"tag-sarco","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-united-states","13":"tag-unitedstates","14":"tag-us","15":"tag-wildlife"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116572524694660113","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795635","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=795635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/795636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=795635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=795635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=795635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}