AR-News: (US) Pa. black bear caught in Md. suburbs is euthanized

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CLEAR SPRING, Md. - State wildlife managers killed a potentially dangerous 
black bear that was caught in suburban Cecil County, the Department of Natural 
Resources said Friday.
The animal bore ear tags from the Pennsylvania Game Commission and was 
identified as having killed a goat in Bucks County, the department said. After 
Pennsylvania game managers moved it to Schuylkill County, it traveled 130 miles to 
Maryland, where it recently killed three pet rabbits in two separate 
incidents, the department said.
Wildlife technicians trapped the 325-pound male late Wednesday night and took 
it to the Indian Springs Wildlife Management Area near Clear Spring, where it 
was euthanized, the agency said.
The bear had lost its fear of humans and dogs and had become accustomed to 
living in suburbia, Paul Peditto, director of the the department's Wildlife and 
Heritage Service, said. "Despite our best efforts to resolve this conflict 
through nonlethal means, it was the right decision under these circumstances," he 
said.
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