A brown bear shot last week near the start of Small Tracts Road may still be alive, according to state wildlife trooper Ricky Merritt.
“People in that neighborhood should be watchful,” Merritt said this week.
Merritt was notified Aug. 28 that a bear had been shot two days earlier. On questioning, a resident there confirmed he’d shot at the bear twice at 11 p.m. Aug. 26 after it had gotten into his chicken coop, then…
