Category: Bears
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The relatively dense Cherokee Oaks neighborhood has supported three garbage-rummaging bears in 2025. According to some reports, more than half of the houses are operated as short term rentals (STRs). The bears frequent the STR waste carts left roadside 24 hours per day, 7 days per week… a veritable all-you-can-eat buffet of left-over pizza. A mother and her two yearlings emerged from their den in January to feast on the contents of two recycling carts. By February, they started scoping out the neighborhood more frequently. By April, they were regular STR guests. At the end of April, the…
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The following story is excerpted from ‘Heading for the Hills: A Trip up the Mineral King Wagon Road in the Late Eighteen-Nineties’, written by Alice Crowley Jackson (1894–1969). In the manuscript, Alice retells a story that her mother, Emma Gilliam Crowley (1858–1917), told. The story takes place in about 1880 and features Erastus “Ras” Fenton Warner (1842–1928). Ras was a well borer who came to Tulare County in 1858. At the time of the story, Ras would have been about thirty-seven years old. He stood five feet, ten inches tall, with dark hair, blue eyes, and a deep…