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Updated · abcnews.com · Jul 10Bear Charges Lake Tahoe Father, Repelled With Bear Spray on July 4
3 articles · Updated · abcnews.com · Jul 10Summary
- Video shows a bear charging Cortlandt Koerwitz in his Lake Tahoe driveway before turning away when he fired bear spray.
- Koerwitz said his daughters had startled the bear while packing coolers in the garage, where it was rummaging through the family's garbage.
- Bear encounters are common near the vacation home, but Koerwitz said this was the first time he had seen one act aggressively.
- Koerwitz said the spray also hit him and left him convinced it was his only practical defense, urging others in bear country to keep bear spray handy.
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As bear encounters rise, are our current prevention strategies becoming obsolete? With urban sprawl and climate change, is peaceful human-bear coexistence truly possible?