In Virginia, bears and their mischief are multiplying

Despite longer hunting seasons and a record kill last year, bears in the Shenandoah Valley are damaging crops and livestock and scavenging food like teenagers.

Bear nuisance problems come from a combination of a shortage of wild food and the fact that more people are moving into bear territory, biologists say.

Bears primarily eat wild fruit such as blackberries, blueberries and black cherries, as well as mast such as acorns. Last year, because of a late frost in April that killed off flowering wild fruit, many bears, which are omnivores, had little to eat.

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