Nevada wildlife officials say they were forced to euthanize bear
Nevada wildlife officials say they’ve been forced to kill a bear at Lake Tahoe that was posing a growing danger at a state park at Sand Harbor just south of Incline Village.
Nevada Department of Wildlife spokesman Chris Healy says the two-year-old black bear entered the parking area at Lake Tahoe Nevada State Park Thursday morning and raided a cooler the back of a Jeep with an open top. He says initial efforts to scare the bear away failed until a park ranger shot the bear with non-lethal rounds.
The 150-pound bear finally left the area, but returned within an hour, walking near the visitor’s center for another two hours before additional efforts to scare it off succeeded.
