Four bears were killed after stealing food from a tent at Alaska Campground

Alaska's wildlife authorities have four black bears at a campground recently reserved for the people of Ancollage. I killed you. It's closed.

On Tuesday, an employee of the Alaska Fish Game Bureausteals food from a tent in a managed Centennial Park, separately from the sow and her two pups. Officials said by the city that killed another adult bear in action.

Ancollage is the largest city in Alaska, with a population of nearly 300,000, but it is also a bear country.

The park is located in the eastern part of Anchorage, between Chugatch State Park and Elmendorf-Richardson Joint Base, State Wildlife authorities said: As a vast bear habitat.

In the fish and games department, Ancollage residents share the municipality with up to 350 American black bears and up to 65 brown bears. I said that.

"Sure, it's a busy bear time for us throughout Ancollage," said Cynthia Wardlow, a spokesperson for the department.

This part of Anchorage "tends to be a fairly active bear territory because of the dense housing," she said.

The city closed the Pandemic Mass Shelter at Sullivan Arena on June 30th. The arena has been home to hundreds of homeless people over the past two years, Alaska Public Media reported.

When the shelter was closed, some homeless people grabbed 84 available spots and moved to Centennial Park after the campsite stopped making public reservations. ..

Corey Allen Young, spokesperson for Dave Bronson, Mayor of Ancollage, said the Centennial Park is home to 210 people and the city is increasing the security of its camp users.

The city also brings in 60 bare-proof food storage containers and 20 bare-proof 32 gallon containers for hourly cleaning activities to reduce waste and food. We also continue to inspect camps and educate campers. Follow safe practices. "

The campground right next to the Glen Highway is "an ideal starting point for Alaska travelers," the city's website says. However, it also warns campers not to store food in coolers inside or outside the tent so that bears are not attracted to the campground.

Wildlife officials said they were in a tent to get food, personal hygiene and trash before the bears were killed.

If a bear enters a tent or building, it can be considered life-threatening, threatening public safety and killed.

"The Centennial Campground staff are doing their best to manage the campground and minimize attractants, but there are still plenty of tents with food," Ancollage said. Said in a statement, Dave Battle, a regional biologist in the fish and games department. "Until that changes, more bears will enter the campground and enter the tent."

He said this was a safety issue for campers.

"Killing a particular bear is a very temporary solution," Battle said. "For that place, there will always be more bears nearby, and we can't teach bears not to eat what they can find."

Predatory beatings by black bears are extremely rare. However, in 2017, there were a series of deadly hitsby the black bear. A worker at a remote gold exploration site was beaten to death and a second worker was injured by the same bear. In another attack, the black bear killed a 16-year-old runner who lost the competition in the mountain race south of Ancollage.   

According to the Fish and Games website, there are an estimated 100,000 black bears in Alaska. “When it comes to food, black bears are a creature of opportunity,” says the department.