{"id":1677,"date":"2023-05-08T01:26:04","date_gmt":"2023-05-08T09:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/?p=1677"},"modified":"2023-05-04T12:25:49","modified_gmt":"2023-05-04T20:25:49","slug":"bear-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/2023\/05\/08\/bear-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Aware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The sunny weather has woken up some of our furry native friends, the bears. They have come out of a long hibernation and are ready to explore. They may look cute and cuddly, but they are far from that.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nps.gov\/articles\/bear-identification.htm\">American Black Bear and Brown\/Grizzly Bears<\/a> are native to Alaska. Did you know that not all black bears are black, some are brown\/cinnamon color.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.proquest.com\/docview\/2414901516?pq-origsite=summon\">Bear Aware<\/a>: If you see a baby bear, be mindful that mama bear is likely close by. Like any protective mama, you don&#8217;t want to mess with her babies.<\/p>\n<p>Do not feed the bears or keep food in a vehicle where they can get to. Make sure to keep your surroundings\/garbage cans free of any food that can attract their attention. They have a keen sense of smell.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/alaskawildliferescue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/Alaska-Bear-Rescue.jpg\" alt=\"Alaska Bear Rescue\" width=\"512\" height=\"272\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The sunny weather has woken up some of our furry native friends, the bears. They have come out of a long hibernation and are ready to explore. They may look cute and cuddly, but they are far from that. American Black Bear and Brown\/Grizzly Bears are native to Alaska. Did you know that not all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":407,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/407"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1677"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1695,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1677\/revisions\/1695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/consortiumlibrary.org\/blogs\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}