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2025
As many as seventeen bears, including seven cubs, have been sighted in Three Rivers in 2025. Three of this year’s cubs are believed to be dead, and we have confirmed two injured adult bears. Two of our overly-bold bears are tagged and collared. Our bears are not relocated, so the next step for these bears is typically euthanasia.
We have a choice. We can stop giving bears access to our food and garbage. We can give next year’s cubs a chance to be wild.
A deadly feast
Bears who become accustomed to human food and too comfortable around people face almost certain death.
Mapping our bears
In 2025, we started tracking bear sightings in Three Rivers. For details, see our Dashboard. To meet a few our our bears, scroll down.
Sequoia Bears
Three Rivers is bounded on three sides by Sequoia National Park and Bureau of Land Management land. These are areas where bears can thrive in their natural habitat.
Bears don’t recognize federal boundaries, of course, and it is natural for the bears to visit Three Rivers in the autumn to feast on acorns. It is natural for the wild bears to return to the federal lands to den and feast on meadow grass, grubs, and berries.
Fortunate visitors get to see our bears going about their lives in Sequoia National Park.
2025 Bears
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Cherokee Oaks
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…
Historic Bears
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Mineral King’s Grizzly
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…
