Colorado Parks and Wildlife Warns: Black Bears Have Their Eyes on Halloween Pumpkins
Colorado Parks and Wildlife issued a Halloween advisory October 2: black bears are eyeing porch pumpkins, and residents should bring decorations indoors, the Coloradoan reported.
Fall is when bears pack on fat for hibernation, and pumpkins' sweet scent is a strong attractant, CPW said. In past years, bears repeatedly raided porch pumpkins and yards along urban-wildland edges around Halloween.
Colorado is prime black-bear country, with an estimated ten thousand-plus bears roaming the Rockies and foothills. As suburbs push into the mountains, human-bear encounters keep rising, and wildlife officers issue "bear-aware" reminders every fall.
Officials advise displaying pumpkins indoors, or setting them out only on Halloween night and retrieving them the next morning. Residents who see bears near homes should call CPW rather than confronting or feeding them; feeding wildlife is illegal in Colorado.
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