With Bear Activity Up in California’s Cedar Grove, Visitors Should Use Common Sense to Stay Safe, Say Officials

Visitors to California’s Sierra Nevada mountains may notice signs posted near campsites or pullouts warning of bear activity in the Cedar Grove area of Kings Canyon. “The bears have been a little more active down in the Cedar Grove area,” Sequoia and Kings Canyon public affairs officer Holly Brown told The Epoch Times. After a weather-induced closure last year, Cedar Grove—in the heart of the glacier-carved Kings Canyon—reopened on June 10, delighting visitors traveling east from Fresno on Highway 180. The closure was prompted by flooding that caused “significant damage” during the 2022–23 winter season, the National Park Service said. The lack of human traffic in the area may have prompted black bears—the only species of bear in the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Park—to reenter the area in greater numbers....