The Denver Post profiles some southern Colorado wildlife researchers and their orphaned bears, in connection with . . . I don't want to call them "bear-human" conflicts, because it's pretty one-sided.
Actually, as our non-winter wore on and the bears got fatter and fatter, the Sanders (whom I know) were feeling forgotten, wonder if Colorado Parks and Wildlife was ever going to come collect the bears.
On the other hand, they realized that the relatively warm and dry winter might not click the bears' hibernation switch right away. (Possibly related, about two weeks ago, something walked away with a suet feeder that had been hanging by my house — nothing left but its dangling chain.)
