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The North Bay Bear Collaborative seeks to find out. A recent Sunday in Sonoma County’s Sugarloaf Ridge State Park found socially distanced volunteers looking at photos of bear scat and maps of Sonoma and Napa counties.    The North Bay Bear Collaborative, an...

Bears in your area? May 23, 2020: A bear has been sighted near Cavedale and Moon Mt. Road in the Mayacamas and across the Valley at Jack London State Park and Grove Street in Sonoma.   The bear has been seen rooting around trash and approached buildings. Over the past...

With the increased presence of bears around the wild edges of Sonoma County in recent years has come a budding movement to prepare for their expansion south, in a bid to keep them wild and safe.

Scores of motion-activated wildlife cameras, strategically positioned to capture movement 24 hours a day, are capturing images of the elusive creatures that live on the margins of civilization, what researchers refer to as the “rural-urban interface.”