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By Patric Hedlund, TME

A crowd of about 30 people gathered at the corner of Dom Court and St. Bernard Drive in the Pine Mountain community at 5:30 p.m. Monday, Aug. 8 to protest the killing of a neighborhood bear early that morning.

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Right: ‘The Jungle Book Bear,’ a.k.a. ‘Otis’ a.k.a. ‘Hercules’ was killed at about 1:30 a.m. Monday, Aug. 8 with a reported eight rounds from a firearm in a PMC neighborhood with closely clustered homes.

Below: Concerned neighbors gather near the site of the shooting.

To be rescheduled —Living with Wildlife
a public meeting with California Dept. of Fish and Wildlife Biologist Vicky Monroe—To be rescheduled

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This is part of the August 12, 2016 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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