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To confirm the footage showed a costumed human and not a bear, department officials asked for assistance from a California Department of Fish and Wildlife biologist, who determined that "it was clearly a human in a bear suit".

The Union of Concerned Scientists, the National Wildlife Federation, Earth First and The Wilderness Society, among others, all published articles or ran campaigns against runaway population growth well into the late 1990s.

“Every little patch of dirt can be a wildlife habitat,” Tilford says.

River and its wildlife habitat, Gonzalez said.

Detectives enlisted the help of a biologist from the California Department of Fish and Wildlife to review the three videos who agreed that it was clearly a human in a bear suit.