Officials Expecting High Mortality Rate Of Bear Cubs
POSTED: 3:24 pm CDT June 7, 2011
NEW ORLEANS -- More black bears have been sighted recently due to the opening of the Morganza Floodway, because the black bears are being pushed to drier ground, wildlife officials say.
State Department of Wildlife and Fisheries spokeswoman Maria Davidson, the large carnivore program manager, said the agency has received between five to seven calls about bear sightings near the flood basin.
Davidson said the department is expecting to see a high mortality rate of bear cubs as a result of the Morganza flooding. If the mother bear has multiple cubs, it is more trouble for her to keep track of all of them. That leads to cubs becoming separated from the family and possibly getting hurt, she said.
Davidson also said that last month, a mother bear was hit by a train and killed. Her cubs have not been located.
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