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dens,” said Dr. Vaughn, with entrances 40 or 50 feet off the ground, “we sedated the bears with darts, measured the distance in the tree down to the bear, and cut a window in the tree that allowed us to retrieve the cubs. We could then put the cubs back in the den, replace and seal up the window, and leave things as they were.”
Dennis Martin, state Black Bear Program Manager and co-principal investigator of the CAB Study with Dr. Vaughn, explained that “the state’s black bear population may be expanding. There have been frequent sightings in the Piedmont.” By the 1950s, human pressure reduced the bears’ range to 180 square miles around the Dismal Swamp and 4,116 square miles in the mountainous western counties, or approximately 10.8 percent of the total land area. Today, 11,287 square miles of forested range, which
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