The Bear League

And more misinformation from the Bear League

Ann Bryant, founder of the Bear League, fancies herself as the savior of the black bears in the Tahoe region. Far from saving these once Nobel animals, she is demeaning them by turning them into pets with cute sounding names and she is turning Tahoe into a zoo that features the bears as a tourist attraction.
Bryant argues that Tahoe is “bear habitat”. Lake Tahoe may have been home to black bears 200 years ago, but a lot has changed since then, and Bryant lives in denial. It is no longer wilderness where the bears can hunt wild game.
Allowing the bears to live in the city with no natural food source is the cause of them dumpster diving and breaking into homes and cars instead of foraging for food in the forests. These bears belong in the wilderness, not a city full of people, children and small pets.

A very good article about the Tahoe Black Bears by Jordan Fisher Smith spent 21 years as a park and wilderness ranger in California, Wyoming, Idaho, and Alaska. He is the author of the memoir Nature Noir: A Park Ranger’s Patrol in the Sierra and Engineering Eden: A Violent Death, a Federal Trial, and the Struggle to Restore Nature in Our National Parks, which won a California Book Award and was long-listed for the PEN/E.O. Wilson Award for Literary Science Writing. He lives in the northern Sierra Nevada.