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Steve Gonzalez confirmed that the bear was not tagged, so the department was not certain of the bear’s exact home, though it’s likely the nearby national forest.

It’d be like “turning the clock back to the 1950s to 1980s, when logging dominated national forest management,” said Andy Stahl, executive director of advocacy group Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics.

The unfavorable weather conditions also sparked smaller wildfires elsewhere in Southern California, including in Santa Barbara County, Angeles National Forest and Malibu.

The windy conditions helped fuel the 4,836-acre Shoe fire in Northern California’s Shasta-Trinity National Forest.

Such dynamics played out in April, 2023, when a blaze in North Carolina’s Croatan National Forest jumped from 7,000 acres to 32,000 in two days and burned for 10 weeks.