Bears, Berries, and Bird Feeders

The Nevada Department of Wildlife is a proud member of BearWise®, a program of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies. Black bears have been in Nevada long before we lived here, but by the early 1900s they had been extirpated from the state. Conservation efforts and habitat regeneration allowed black bears to begin coming back into Nevada and reinhabit their old stomping grounds. Since the 1980s we have watched Nevada’s bear population in the western part of the state increase dramatically. It is now up to Nevada’s residents and visitors to live and recreate responsibly in bear country! In this episode of Nevada Wild, Aaron Keller and Bobby Jones are joined by Game Biologist and Bear Expert Becca Carniello. Becca explains her unique position in the Department, and they discuss solutions to human-caused problems for bears in Nevada and how we can all live with wildlife and what it means to be BearWise. Find more resources on living with bears and other wildlife here:

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Bears, Berries, and Bird Feeders is an episode from NDOW presents the Nevada Wild Podcast by The Nevada Department of Wildlife's Nevada Wild.

This episode is 00:33:40 long.

This episode was published on Jul 11, 2025.

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