Bear Smart

The DurangoHerald’s weekly Bear Tracker will now include reader-submitted photos. If you snapped a pic – in a safe manner and from a distance, of course – of a roaming ursine, send it to us to...

A Colorado Parks and Wildlife officer put down a 2-year-old male black bear Monday because it has been hanging out with the wrong crowd – humans.“I don’t like to put down a bear any time,” said...

A man who is homeless was nipped by a black bear Wednesday morning while sleeping on public lands east of the Manna Soup Kitchen in Durango.The man, who would identify himself only as Gary, said he...