{"id":954449,"date":"2026-07-23T17:35:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:35:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/954449\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T17:35:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T17:35:16","slug":"bear-spotted-in-rome-at-turin-road-intersection-local","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/954449\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Spotted in Rome at Turin Road Intersection | Local"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAQAAAADCAQAAAAe\/WZNAAAAEElEQVR42mM8U88ABowYDABAxQPltt5zqAAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Bear Spotted in Rome at Turin Road Intersection\" class=\"img-responsive lazyload full blur\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" data- data-\/><\/p>\n<p>             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/6a622dbc49ff0.image.jpg\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/><\/p>\n<p>ROME, N.Y. &#8212; A bear was seen running across Turin Road in Rome near the intersection with Potter Road.<\/p>\n<p>A local resident reported the animal ran in front of their car before heading into the Beeches area and then into a nearby development.<\/p>\n<p>Below is the viewer video.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/nature\/animals-fish-plants\/black-bear\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">According to the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation<\/a>, 50-60% of the black bear population inhabits the Adirondack region, 30-35% in the Catskill region and 10-15% in the central-western region.<\/p>\n<p>The DEC stated that transient bears are routinely encountered throughout the Mohawk Valley.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Although black bears have a natural fear of humans, they can act or become defensive if surprised, approached, or become emboldened by human food sources,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/nature\/animals-fish-plants\/black-bear\/management\/bearwise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">according to the DEC<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dec.ny.gov\/nature\/animals-fish-plants\/black-bear\/management\/bearwise\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here for bear safety tips<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ROME, N.Y. &#8212; A bear was seen running across Turin Road in Rome near the intersection with Potter&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":954450,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[27],"tags":[2418,34294,159,384042,67,132,68,837],"class_list":["post-954449","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-bear","tag-rome","tag-science","tag-turin-road","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-wildlife"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954449","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=954449"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954449\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/954450"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954449"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954449"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954449"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}