“There is a continual supply of bears coming out of those woods,” Alaska Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist Dave Battle said.
According to Department of Fish and Game Wildlife Biologist David Battle, an adult male black bear was shot by Alaska Wildlife Troopers at 8:40 a.m. Wednesday on the east side of the park.“The bear was killed because it had been entering tents in search of food,” Battle said in an email. “This constitutes an elevated public safety risk, so we dispatch bears that start entering tents or structures. There is still a lot of food in tents in Centennial, and it’s drawing more bears in.
“There is a continual supply of bears coming out of those woods,” Battle said. “So any particular bear we killed, there’s nothing special about that bear that made it a problem animal. It just happened to be the bear that came by there, got rewarded for coming into the camp, getting into food and trash and eventually going into tents. Any bear that happens by Centennial right now is probably going to end up in the camp going through tents.
Shortly after hundreds of homeless Anchorage residents were bused from the closed-down Sullivan Arena mass shelter to Centennial Park where camping fees have been waived,The black bear shot Wednesday was the fifth bear to be shot in order to maintain the safety of the campers nearby. Battle said that the bear that was shot Wednesday morning was approximately 200 pounds and that none of the bears spotted have been brown bears, only black bears.
“Bears are active at this time of year, we certainly have bear calls coming from other areas,” Battle said. “The issue in Centennial is just that there is food and other attractants inside tents — in a lot of tents — and it’s the Centennial staff is doing everything they can to try to clean things up.
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