California Bears Spreading to Eastern Nevada
Sierra black bears are recolonizing the Great Basin area for the first time in 80 years.
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A new conservation study reports that more than 500 black bears have settled down in eastern Nevada’s Great Basin area, a part of their historical range that hasn’t supported bears for about 80 years. The bears, which have migrated east from the Sierra, represent a rare example of large mammals reclaiming lost habitat and provide evidence for the importance of preserving safe wildlife corridors of undeveloped land.