[nickcarraway]

This park is named after the same Scot Monterey Jack cheese is named after.

[UCANSEE2]

Exclusive video of the Bear Sighting.

[nickcarraway]

Jack’s Peak has 8.5 miles of trails for 525 acres, which is not bad. The view of Monterey and the coast are a highlight. The trails are a mixed of covered and exposed.

[Vince Ferrer]

City? State? Country, even?

[MileHi]

Hikers reported seeing a black bear...

Yeah, so?

[ProtectOurFreedom]

Here's how he got to Monterey County...

California Black Bears Head Up the Coast
August 4, 2014. Prior to 1950, there were no reports of black bears occurring in San Luis Obispo County or Monterey County. It's hypothesized that it's because those two counties were typically inhabited by grizzly bears, which on the food chain are much higher up than black bears. It's likely that grizzly bears excluded black bears from that area before they were extirpated from California in the 1920s.

Some studies have shown that the black bears in the Central Coast region are most closely related to the southern Sierra Nevada black bears. We hypothesize that those bears have traveled up and over the transverse ranges and are moving their way up along the coast now.

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Great...the SF Peninsula is going to get bears real soon.

[docman57]

Wow?! Really?! How novel.....somebody sees a freaking bear in California and this is just soooooo important! Get a freaking life! Where I live we see wildlife of all sorts everyday! I chased 3 wolves away from cattle last week! Go find something important to Post!!

[Bob434]

“A” Black Bear? Criminy- we have tons of black bears around us- and many many people hike and there’s never been an attack- perhaps some close encoutners- but no attacks- I had a close encounter myself- bear was over a hill, clapping it’s jaws at me- huffing- and ran off- i never did get to see it- I wouldn’t even want to guess how many bears I’ve walked past i nthe woods without even knowing it-

“A” bear was spotted- lol