Bears in the News

OUR BEGINNINGS - Our First Year

News articles that chronicle the events that launched the founding of the BEAR League *** Aug. 28, 1998 ***

 

States differ on nuisance bear policies
10-1-1998 - Tahoe World
Tahoe can't put a lid on bear problem
10-7-1998 - Tahoe Daily Tribune
Bear Preservation Fund Established
10-8-1998 - Tahoe World
How other areas are dealing with bears
10-22-1998 - Tahoe World
Petition drive seeks to change bear policy
10-22-1998 - Tahoe World
Living with Bears
10-22-1998 - Tahoe World
Bear's death could bring new policy
11-20-1998 - Daily Tribune
Bear solution?
11-26-1998 - Tahoe World
Baby bear is hibernating safely
12-31-1998 - Tahoe world

OUR SECOND YEAR - 1999
Bear-backers unite, seek policy changes
1-19-1999 - Tahoe Daily Tribune

Bear advocates set for summer
3-19-1999 - Tahoe Daily Tribune

A bear of a problem    
8-9-1999 - San Diego Union Tribune

Group tries to educate people, and bears, too
8-9-1999 - San Diego Union Tribune

Oliver's story ends on highway
11-25-1999 - Tahoe World

Bear's story will live on in League's work
12-9-1999 - Tahoe World
OUR THIRD YEAR - 2000
Basin bears awake and hungry
3-27-2000 - Tahoe Daily Tribune

A fed bear is a dead bear
4-13-2000 - Reno Gazette Journal

Kids join effort to protect Tahoe bears
5-20-2000 - Reno Gazette Journal

Bear-icade
7-2-2000 - San Francisco Examiner
OUR FOURTH YEAR - 2001
Bear necessities
9-20-2001 - Greeley (Colo.) Tribune
OUR FIFTH YEAR - 2002
Search still on for bear killer
7-18-2002 - Tahoe World

Officers get tools to scare bears
11-2002 - Tahoe Daily Tribune

Problem bears systematically killed
11-19-2002 - Tahoe Daily Tribune

Many gather to protest bear killings
12-2-2002 - Reno Gazette Journal