{"id":13172,"date":"2024-03-27T23:56:44","date_gmt":"2024-03-27T23:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13172"},"modified":"2024-04-20T23:59:38","modified_gmt":"2024-04-20T23:59:38","slug":"bear-bloom-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2024\/03\/27\/bear-bloom-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Bloom 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/weather\/other\/ar-BB1k5gR3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The Los Angeles Times via MSN<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">As hungry bears awaken from hibernation, a California mountain village braces for invasion<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>by Louis Sahag\u00fan<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Grizzly (1976) | Full Movie | Christopher George | Andrew Prine | Richard Jaeckel\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ap769z_7KjU?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Led by a sense of smell 100 times keener than that of humans, the predators have crashed through windows, ripped tiles off roofs and torn solid wood doors off their hinges to get at leftover pizza in a refrigerator.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They have also defecated on counters, furniture and floors as a \u201ccalling card,\u201d officials say.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In a region of Southern California that wildlife authorities call a human-black bear conflict zone, the impending arrival of spring in this small mountain village is met with dread and fear as the hungry giants emerge from their winter torpor to search for food.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBears are a major problem here \u2014 and it\u2019s getting worse,\u201d said Patrice Stimpson, patrol chief of Pine Mountain Club \u2014 a community of some 2,800 residents in the San Emigdio Mountains, about 75 miles north of Los Angeles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThey\u2019ve caused hundreds of thousands of dollars in property damage,\u201d Stimpson said. \u201cLast year, a house caught fire after a bear climbed onto the gas stove and turned on the burners. A few cars were nearly totaled by bears rummaging for crushed cookies between the seats.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/weather\/other\/ar-BB1k5gR3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at MSN<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Los Angeles Times via MSN As hungry bears awaken from hibernation, a California mountain village braces for invasion by Louis Sahag\u00fan Led by a sense of smell 100 times keener than that of humans, the predators have crashed through windows, ripped tiles off roofs and torn solid wood doors off their hinges to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13172\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}