Running wild: Healed from injuries, a bear roams free again
The metal door opened on the trailer. People shouted. The bear bolted.
With two trained Karelian bear dogs in pursuit, “Black Pearl” hightailed it into the woods.
Five months to the day since she’d been found with pelvic fractures off the side of a highway, and after a long recovery, this adult female American black bear was back in the wild.
“We’re going to push it out and let it go,” state Fish & Wildlife Officer Nicholas Jorg explained to a dozen or so onlookers before the release on Tuesday. “Once we call the dogs off and all the noise, then the bear will have a big sense of relief and feel safe once it’s a safe, acceptable distance away from a group of people.”
Jorg also told people to yell, “Get out, bear,” to make sure she got the message.
The bystanders stood in pickup beds. The bear was inside a culvert trap — a big, corrugated drain pipe on a trailer bed — that Jorg had towed behind his department pickup that morning to a meadow in the Cascade Range. The journey started at the PAWS Wildlife Center in Lynnwood, where the bear had been recuperating from surgery, under expert care.
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So glad for her. 