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It appears a bear involved in an attack on a Maple Ridge woman has been caught.
It happened around 8 p.m. Wednesday on 287th Street near Andersen Pacific Forest Products.
Carol Boutin with the Provincial Health Services Authority says the 69-year-old suffered cuts to her face. “BC Ambulance dispatched two ambulances, one advanced life support and one basic because they weren’t sure what they were going to find.”
However, she says it was a routine transfer, meaning the injuries weren’t serious. The woman was released from the hospital with only minor injuries.
“[She] saw three bear cubs on her property and walked out onto her deck to look at the cubs,” says Inspector Murray Smith with the BC Conservation Service. “At that point… a female black bear — the mother — ran over the woman on the deck, giving her a laceration on her face, as the bear ran off into the bushes with the cubs.”
“As of this morning, the sow bear has been caught and the cubs are up a tree,” he adds.
Inspector Murray Smith says the decision was made to relocate the mother bear and her three cubs to an area north of Mission.
“There’s no reason for anything to happen to the bears other than relocation, and the last thing we want to have to do is euthanize the bears.”
Smith says officers came to that decision because the bear didn’t have a prior history of interacting with humans.
Instead, he says the plan is to try and place them somewhere more remote.
“…Well back into the wooded area as a group, and hopefully become wilderness bears.”
Agencies/Canadajournal
