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PARK CITY — After receiving several calls about a black bear, Division of Natural Resources officials located the animal Monday morning and plan to relocate it.
The bear was first sighted around 6 a.m. in the Pinebrook area of Park City, according to the Summit County Sheriff's Office. DNR officials, Division of Wildlife Resources officials, Utah Highway Patrol officers and Summit County Sheriff’s deputies were dispatched to the scene with bloodhounds and tracked the animal.
"I went up on the call and we located it, but it was hard to get at," Division of Wildlife Resources urban wildlife biologist Steve Gray said. "It just took awhile because it was running on us."
After almost five hours of searching, DNR officials “successfully tranquilized the animal and removed it from the area,” the sheriff’s office said.
"We just got on it with hound dogs and they were able to chase it to where we could dart it," Gray said.
The bear will be marked with an ear tag and relocated within the same wildlife unit, Gray said. Wildlife officials receive several calls each year for bear sightings within city limits so Monday's event was not uncommon, he said.
"The biggest thing we stress is that people put out their trash the morning of trash day, not the night before," Gray said. "Especially in areas like Park City."
Watch the video for the relocation and release of the bear.
Contributing: Geoff Liesik
Additional pic of the bear from this morning in Pinebrook. pic.twitter.com/Dfi9LBMp0Y — Sheriff J. Martinez (@SummitCountySO) May 18, 2015
