PROVINCETOWN, Mass. (AP) - A 200-pound bear is capturing the imagination of Massachusetts residents as it meanders across Cape Cod.
Boston-area newscasts are featuring daily updates on the bear's whereabouts. A Cape Cod Bear Twitter feed has nearly 1,300 followers.
Officials believe the bear swam about 500 feet across the Cape Cod Canal from the mainland on Memorial Day weekend. It's since been spotted at more than a dozen locations along a 60-mile stretch of the Cape from Sandwich east to Provincetown.
Now that the bear has reached the tip of the Cape, wildlife officials say they might attempt to immobilize and move it to an area where other bears live.
Officials say research dating to the 1700s suggests this is the first bear on the Cape.
Story here.
Hey.........Bare in P-town! bare in P-town........now your gonna see a traffic jam!
i've been following the bear tail ...tale? Jim.
he's quite a celebrity here now! 
everyone's been told to lock down trash cans and take down birdfeeders.
i don't doubt Maggot has been bare in P-Town. hahahaha
i've been following his progress in the Cape Cod Times.
everyone loves him. until he eats their dog. heh
So what do you think... did he swim or amble across the bridge?
Jim i posted this in Cape Cod thread June 1. they think he swam!
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well this is something new. he's been wandering all over the place!
boston herald and cape cod times:
Stash the trash! Take down the bird feeders!
With a bear on the loose on Cape Cod — where shark sightings and beached whales are more common — that’s the advice the wildlife cops are issuing to homeowners.
“Feeders are like candy for bears,” said Reginald Zimmerman, assistant press secretary for the Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, which oversees the state’s Environmental Police and has been involved in locating the bear since residential sightings have poured in over Memorial Day weekend. He is also advising people to keep a healthy distance.
officials say he probably swam across the Cape Cod Canal.
Bear sightings are common in western Massachusetts, but eastern reports are increasing. Residents of Wareham and Plymouth reported bear sightings in recent weeks.
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This is awesome. I gots to research how far a bear can swim. Can you imagine if he got fixated on Martha's Vineyard?
Someone has to name the bear and meme that motherfucker.
(06-07-2012, 10:01 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ]Jim i posted this in Cape Cod thread June 1. they think he swam!
Ah shit - I missed it.
Sorry for creating a duplicate.
(06-07-2012, 10:14 PM)Jimbone Wrote: [ -> ] (06-07-2012, 10:01 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ]Jim i posted this in Cape Cod thread June 1. they think he swam!
Ah shit - I missed it.
Sorry for creating a duplicate.
no problem, happens all the time! 
you know, there are coyotes on the Cape and i think they came over the bridges! i hear them howl like werewolves sometimes.
(06-07-2012, 10:17 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ] (06-07-2012, 10:14 PM)Jimbone Wrote: [ -> ] (06-07-2012, 10:01 PM)Lady Cop Wrote: [ -> ]Jim i posted this in Cape Cod thread June 1. they think he swam!
Ah shit - I missed it.
Sorry for creating a duplicate.
no problem, happens all the time!
I <3 me my Lady Cop.
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i don't think there has been a more famous bear since Smokey...he's been all over the 'net from LATimes to Toronto.
i think he's eating some fish and clams and salt-water taffy.
a humane trap has been set for him. 
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seafood platter please ![[Image: bearlunch.gif]](http://i1118.photobucket.com/albums/k615/26witch/bearlunch.gif)
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his travels
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the inevitable tee-shirt
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Maybe he wanted some quality beach time, a chance to cool off in chilly Cape Cod Bay. That thick black coat can get a bit warm, after all. Or maybe he wanted a glimpse of the great white sharks lurking off the Chatham coast.
Who knows why a black bear, a male possibly weighing up to 200 pounds, paw-paddled his away across Cape Cod Canal, then made his way down historic Route 6A, passing some of the Cape's nicest architecture along the way. But the young bear's trip may end in Provincetown, the bustling Cape-tip town that's home to numerous bars and restaurants and a tourist magnet. That's where the wandering youngster was spotted Wednesday morning, and officials are now scrambling to remove him before trouble occurs.
State wildlife officials hope to trap or tranquilize the animal and move it to a more suitable spot for black bears — the woods of western Massachusetts.
ha! they removed the trap and are going to leave him alone for now.
PROVINCETOWN — State officials have suspended trapping operations for the Cape Cod bear.
Because the bear has not presented a public safety issue, state wildlife officials are returning to just monitoring the bear's activities, Reginald Zimmerman, assistant press secretary for the Massachusetts Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, said Friday.
Zimmerman said the bear traps in Provincetown would be removed. He said future action could still be taken if a public safety issue arose with the bear.
The bear was spotted Friday night near a hill at Pilgrim Monument, said Provincetown police Sgt. Glenn Enos.
"A couple from Hyannis called it in," he said. "They heard a commotion, and there was the bear, having dinner."at the Lobster Shack?
He said the call came in at about 7:30 p.m. and the couple was "75 to 100 feet" away from the bear. The area the bear was spotted was blocked off by police while wildlife authorities responded.The bear "eluded us," said Enos
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State wildife officials placed a bear trap in the woods of Provincetown with doughnuts nearby as bait.
Poor bear. I hope he behaves himself so they won't kill him.
It's going to be a much longer swim from P-town. I hope it doubles back and crosses the bridge
me too! there's great whites out there! poor bear would be a shark sandwich! 
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end of the saga...i'm glad he came to no harm and will go find other bears to live with!
Cape Cod's bear snagged in Wellfleet
The Cape Cod bear's romp across the Cape came to an end Monday night in Wellfleet, according to an eyewitness who said she saw state environmental police capture the furry vagabond. he was sedated and transported off-Cape.
no more lobster rolls for him. hahahaha
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Wellfleet -- 06/011/12 - The sedated bear is transported in a carrying tube in the back of a State Natural Resource trucks with a convoy of trucks in front of it on Gull Pond road Wellfleet Monday evening.
I feel grateful that they did the right thing. There are so many instances of this type of situation where the bear is killed because the people in charge won't take the time & patience that is required.