JASPER — Parks Canada wants everyone to know that despite the wildfire scorching Jasper National Park, Bear 222 is OK. 'She looks like a very healthy grizzly bear right now,' the federal agency said on a social media thread.
JASPER — Parks Canada wants everyone to know that despite the wildfire scorching Jasper National Park, Bear 222 is OK.
"Fire is a natural process and we expect animals to find new places to live," said James McCormick, Jasper's human-wildlife coexistence specialist. Large animals can simply run for it. Smaller animals tend to hide underground or in sheltered places within the burn, such as tunnels, stumps, root holes, pathways under moist forest litter and spaces under rocks.
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