{"id":15893,"date":"2016-04-24T12:11:49","date_gmt":"2016-04-24T18:11:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15893"},"modified":"2016-04-24T16:17:04","modified_gmt":"2016-04-24T22:17:04","slug":"citizen-times-5-interesting-findings-from-asheville-bear-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/?p=15893","title":{"rendered":"Citizen-Times | 5 interesting findings from Asheville bear study"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Researchers kicked off the study in the spring by catching bears using baited culvert traps \u2014 large metal containers with a doors that slam shut when a bear goes inside. Captured bears were tranquilized to allow researchers to attach the collars, then released unharmed a short time later.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/09\/18\/interesting-findings-asheville-bear-study\/15841217\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full alignright\" src=\"http:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/beartagging01.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The GPS collars are programmed to automatically unclasp and fall off bears after three years, or collars can be unclasped by biologists remotely at any time.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Funding for the $600,000 study is coming from a decades-old federal tax on firearms and ammunition, a tax that sends money to wildlife research, game projects and hunter education in North Carolina and elsewhere.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article at Citizen-Times: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.citizen-times.com\/story\/news\/local\/2014\/09\/18\/interesting-findings-asheville-bear-study\/15841217\/\">5 interesting findings from Asheville bear study<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Researchers kicked off the study in the spring by catching bears using baited culvert traps \u2014 large metal containers with a doors that slam shut when a bear goes inside. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":15894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1146,140,1145,139],"class_list":["post-15893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-more-articles","tag-asheville","tag-bears","tag-north-carolina","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15893"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15900,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15893\/revisions\/15900"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boulderblueline.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}