Be Aware -- Watch for bears
Bear Alert!!
updated August 2, 2020
Fresh brown bear tracks, possibly from 2 bears on Trailways this morning (8/2) and headed up the hill to Lust's gravel pit. Two scat piles. Possibly following a cow & calf.
July 28, 2020
A bear has broken into numerous cabins, killed chickens and has gotten into trash. It seems to be getting more bold, approaching cabins with people inside instead of just empty cabins. It's likely there is more than one bear in Chickaloon. Known activities: pounding on the door of an occupied cabin on Permanente, breaking into numerous properties in Best Line and was run out of a yard on the river side of the Glenn hwy. by their dog. The Van Cleve's (mi 2.8 Fish Lake Rd) report a bear on their deck the night of 7/25. It left muddy paws prints on the locked steel door. In the a.m. they saw it had dragged around a bucket, also left scat in the yard. Not far from there, also on the 25th at the Bowen's, the bear broke the door jamb on their barn but did no other damage.
Owners of rarely used cabins should place multiple nail boards on steps and around doors and large windows as a deterrent. Unprotected cabins and structures allow habituation of bears. This bear appears to recognize a door as a way to get into a dwelling.
