Three black bears were killed last week in two separate incidents after they got into campers’ food and gear at the Eklutna Lake Campground, Alaska State Parks officials said.
Two bears were killed on June 24 by state park rangers after attempts to haze them away with nonlethal rounds were unsuccessful, and a third was killed June 27 at the campground north of Anchorage, Alaska State Parks said in an online statement Tuesday. All of the bears were adult animals, said Ben Corwin, superintendent of Chugach State Park.
In the first incident, rangers received reports on June 24 that “two to three black bears” were getting into tents, food and other gear at the campground, the agency said in its statement. Rangers arrived to find two bears in a campsite “actively eating the camper’s food and getting into his gear,” the agency said…