{"id":353,"date":"2010-06-25T13:25:03","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:25:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/?p=353"},"modified":"2010-06-25T13:29:12","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T17:29:12","slug":"signs-of-a-black-bear-seen-near-highway-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/2010\/06\/25\/signs-of-a-black-bear-seen-near-highway-9\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs of a Black Bear Seen Near Highway 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/33403047@N00\/4642789548\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Black Bear by gainesp2003 at Flickr\" src=\"http:\/\/farm5.static.flickr.com\/4047\/4642789548_71505bae4a_m.jpg\" alt=\"Black Bear by gainesp2003 at Flickr\" width=\"240\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Black Bear<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We received an e-mail yesterday that someone had spotted <a title=\"Black Bear Skat (Poop)\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ehow.com\/how_2212124_recognize-black-bear-scat-track.html\">Black Bear Skat<\/a> (droppings) near Highway 9 on the Forsyth Big Creek Greenway.\u00a0 We haven&#8217;t verified the sighting, nor have we received any notifications of bear sightings in the area.\u00a0 That being said, black bears are indigenous to the region.\u00a0 They are generally shy, and will likely stay away from the area when people are around.<\/p>\n<p>Here is a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebearawaresw.org\/\">site<\/a> with some <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bebearawaresw.org\/\">safety techniques<\/a> to remember should you encounter a bear.\u00a0 If you encounter one, please don&#8217;t try to interact, feed, or get closer to the bear.\u00a0 Also, never get between a bear and it&#8217;s cub.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We received an e-mail yesterday that someone had spotted Black Bear Skat (droppings) near &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,32],"tags":[33,73,6,74,18,5,15,12,75,128],"class_list":["post-353","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured","category-wildlife","tag-animals","tag-bear","tag-big-creek-greenway","tag-black-bear","tag-forsyth","tag-forsyth-county","tag-forsyth-county-greenway","tag-hwy-9","tag-skat","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=353"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":357,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353\/revisions\/357"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigcreekgreenway.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}