{"id":198401,"date":"2026-01-18T11:58:54","date_gmt":"2026-01-18T19:58:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=198401"},"modified":"2026-01-18T12:01:13","modified_gmt":"2026-01-18T20:01:13","slug":"cdfw-rehabilitated-orphaned-bears-in-calaveras-county","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/?p=198401","title":{"rendered":"CDFW Rehabilitated Orphaned Bears Released in Calaveras County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;Last month, CDFW returned two orphaned black bears to remote, wild habitat in Calaveras County. The two siblings, both males, were captured as cubs in Arnold in July and spent the previous five months or so in wildlife rehabilitation, first at the Ramona Wildlife Center in Southern California and then at Sonoma County Wildlife Rescue. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fb.watch\/EIZ19BKMiQ\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"576\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-198402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM-123x70.jpg 123w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM-570x320.jpg 570w, https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM-701x394.jpg 701w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click Above Photo for Link to Video<\/p>\n<p>The two bears are part of a pilot study involving seven young, rehabbed bears released back into the wild this past fall \u2013 as opposed to the typical spring release \u2013 to minimize their time in captivity and association with people. The bears are outfitted with GPS collars to track their movements and ear tags for visual identification. <\/p>\n<p>If you suspect orphaned bears in your area or cubs otherwise needing help, please do not feed them and contact your regional CDFW office as soon as possible: https:\/\/wildlife.ca.gov\/Regions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arnold, CA&#8230;Last month, CDFW returned two orphaned black bears to remote, wild habitat in Calaveras County. The two siblings, both males, were captured as cubs in Arnold in July and spent the previous five months or so in wildlife rehabilitation, first at the Ramona Wildlife Center in Southern California and then at Sonoma County Wildlife [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":198402,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_cbd_carousel_blocks":"[]","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,9,20,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-animals-pets","category-arnold","category-featured","category-news","last_archivepost"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/Fullscreen-capture-1182026-115209-AM.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=198401"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198401\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":198405,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198401\/revisions\/198405"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/198402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=198401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=198401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.thepinetree.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=198401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}