近距离内射合集

The New Mexico Department of Wildlife has captured and killed 129 black bears following depredation complaints around the state this year, and another 58 have been killed by property owners after being caught in the act of killing livestock or breaking into homes.

Darren Vaughan, a Department of Wildlife spokesperson, said 13 of the bears euthanized by the agency were captured in the Albuquerque area, which includes Tijeras, Cedar Crest and Sandia Park.

鈥淭he Department鈥檚 priority is to keep bears alive and prevent them from becoming habituated to people,鈥� he said. 鈥淭he public can help in these efforts by eliminating attractants from their yards, which will prevent bears from becoming habituated to human-provided food sources.鈥�

On Thursday, Navajo Police said a man was killed by a bear in Crystal, on the Navajo Nation by the Arizona border. Officers chased the bear into the woods and killed it. It was the second bear attack this year, in the first, a man was bitten while walking his dogs in Cedar Crest.

That bear was one of the 129 captured and euthanized by DOW. Others were euthanized after killing livestock and encroaching into public areas, among other reasons.

Additionally, Vaughan said, 35 adult bears and 16 cubs have been relocated this year, including 10 adults and six cubs from the Albuquerque area.

鈥淗owever, bears move quickly and can reach populated areas within a matter of days,鈥� he said. 鈥淯nfortunately, this often leaves the Department with a difficult decision in the interest of preserving human safety.鈥�

Vaughan said the department does not have 鈥渁 firm number鈥� of bear sightings in the Albuquerque area, but they likely number in the hundreds.

鈥淒uring years of extreme drought like we are experiencing now, we have seen similar substantial bear activity,鈥� he said, adding that this year鈥檚 bear activity is similar to 2011 and 2013.

It is unclear how many bears have been euthanized or relocated in past years as the department did not respond to follow-up questions. 

There are several thousand black bears in New Mexico, the majority concentrated in the northern part of the state, and several hundred are killed each year through licensed hunting.

For months, videos and photos have flooded social media showing bears in populated areas of Albuquerque, Santa Fe and other locales around the state. On Tuesday, Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham posted photos on X of bears rummaging through garbage, saying the state has seen the highest number of human-bear conflicts in over a decade.

鈥淟ow snowpack, high temperatures and limited precipitation have reduced the natural foods bears depend on this year,鈥� she said. 鈥淗ungry bears are traveling farther from their natural habitats in search of food, including into our neighborhoods. Once a bear finds an easy meal in a backyard, it鈥檚 likely to return.鈥�

As the issue has escalated, the Department of Wildlife has sent out multiple flyers asking the public to help keep bears away by securing trash cans, clearing yards of fallen fruit, and storing pet food and birdseed inside, among other measures. In a video release, DOW Carnivore and Small Mammal Program Manager Nick Forman said that while droughts have become more common the past decade, 2026 is different.

Forman said droughts over the past several years still brought precipitation at 鈥渢he right times of year鈥� to keep bear populations fed and reproducing 鈥� the green grass of spring snowmelt, berry flushes brought on by midsummer rains and a bumper pi帽on season from monsoons. 

Due to a historically low snowpack, high temperatures and lacking precipitation, less green grass and a substandard berry flush 鈥減ut us at a deficit,鈥� he said. While their natural habitats have less food to offer, bear populations are high compared to past seasons 鈥� leading more bears to search elsewhere.

A second chance

When bear cubs are captured by the Department of Wildlife but too young to fend for themselves, they often end up at Cottonwood Rehab in Espa帽ola. 

Nirankar Horak, executive director at Land of Enchantment Wildlife Foundation, said they are currently caring for eight cubs 鈥� four from mothers who were euthanized, including the one who bit the man in Cedar Crest as he walked his dogs.

She said the other cubs came from the Mescalero Apache reservation, Santa Fe, San Felipe, Jemez Pueblo and two from Galisteo, where their mother was captured after attacking livestock and breaking into a home.

鈥淪ubsequently, she was euthanized 鈥� trying to prevent that behavior from being taught to the cubs. Ultimately, it's one of the few really bad things a bear can do that puts them on a short list,鈥� Horak said. 鈥淪everal of them were separated from mom and we don't know how or why, they were just so starving that they needed to come in.鈥�

She said the rehab has received up to 17 bears in a year previously. This year, they have gotten six cubs within a few weeks, 鈥渨hich is a lot all at once.鈥� The staff does activities to teach cubs how to forage, hiding bugs under logs and leaving elk legs in their enclosures.

The rehab takes donations but, she said, often has to turn down offers of cow meat or chickens as they don鈥檛 want the cubs to learn to eat domestic livestock. 

Horak said they will also tailor the diet to where a bear came from, like fish and sunflowers for Hishii, the cub from Mescalero, 鈥渢eaching them flavors they can look for.鈥� To teach cubs to avoid humans, they make themselves big and yell when they approach the enclosures. 

Dr. Kathleen Ramsay, who founded the rehab, has taken in 700 cubs over 40 years, and, Horak said, only three have ever ended up in a facility for being unreleasable. As the sole bear rehabbers in the state, they have also seen cubs from Texas and Arizona.

Horak said they will collaborate with the Department of Wildlife on where the bears are released and aim to do so as other mothers and cubs are coming out of hibernation. 

鈥淲e learned very quickly that the best thing to do is just find a good area and release them, they will find their home. They don't want to be put where we leave them,鈥� she said. One cub they released was found 20 years later in Steamboat Springs. "He was a bear that was at the end of his life, but he made quite a long journey and many years in the wild.鈥�

Of the hundreds of bear cubs they have released, Horak said fewer than 10 have 鈥済otten in trouble after release.鈥�

鈥淚t's been very, very rare that we've had bears in a bad season end up becoming problem bears,鈥� she said. The cubs they have currently have names like Helen 鈥� named by the woman whose property she came from 鈥� and Snow Jr., named after the nickname of the Jemez officer who brought the cub in.

Next weekend, the rehab will host its annual fundraiser Bear Dinner and Bear Fest in Los Alamos to teach people how to live responsibly around wildlife.  

鈥淚 know it's really hard because we have so many people who want to feed them and want to provide water 鈥� but having those sources will mean a bear is going to stick around a neighborhood longer, which increases its likelihood to get into trouble, which increases its likelihood of an unsuccessful relocation and ultimately a life lost,鈥� Horak said.

Some sacrifices can be hard, she said, like putting your bird feeders up if a bear is in the area. While the bear should move on, 鈥淵our birds will come back, I promise.鈥�