The bear left. Not dramatically. Not on camera. There was no official announcement timed to the moment the crawlspace went quiet. At some point after the new year, the homeowner noticed what had been promised all along: the bear was no longer under the house. That was always the ending…
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A Bear Under the House — Why California’s Wildlife Laws Need a Rethink
It starts the way these things always do — a sound that doesn’t belong to plumbing, weather, or the polite imagination. A thud. A drag. The low-frequency reminder that something large has opinions about where it sleeps. Then the realization lands: a 550-pound black bear has moved into the crawl…