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bears left alone, but he needs com to feed his cattle. Jim Bankston recommended a high tensile fence with electrified strands. Maintenance is a problem, though, with an electric fence. “I have to do something,” Mr. Welch said.
“This is a cub-year for bears,” said Game Warden Jim Bankston. Bears have an average of 2.5 cubs every other year and some she-bears in the eastern U.S. have as many as four cubs. He said he has seen numerous cubs this year who will grow to 175 to 200 pounds by next summer.
The bears do not have a lot to eat this year in the park, he added. There aren’t many berries with the dry weather and the gypsy moths have killed many oak trees, limiting the acoms.
Since early April about 20 bears have been trapped in Madison and Rappahannock counties and relocated, Mr. Bankston said. During the first week of July, 12 bears were taken out of one orchard.
When the bears become a nuisance, especially to the farmers, they are trapped by Gerald Blank of Rockingham County. Permits to shoot the
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