THE DAILY WIRE · GRASS VALLEY, CALIFORNIA · 2026-10-06
Grass Valley Bear Relocated After Declining to RSVP
A bear wandered into Grass Valley, California, was caught by officials, and has since been relocated, according to a brief report from gvnews.com that offers few details beyond the capture and the move itself.
The report does not specify how long the bear was in town, what drew it there, or where exactly it has been relocated to, leaving this columnist to work with the procedural bones of the case: bear enters area, bear is caught, bear is driven elsewhere.
Grass Valley sits in bear country, in the foothills where the Sierra Nevada meets suburban cul-de-sacs, so an ursine visitor is less scandal than seasonal inevitability. Still, a capture-and-relocation operation is not nothing, and deserves a paragraph.
Walt, a deer who grazes the orchards on the edge of town, told this reporter he'd clocked the bear's movements for weeks before any trap appeared. His account of events differs from the official record.
Whether the relocated bear stays relocated is, as always in these matters, an open question the forest rarely answers on the record.
Spun and done.
“That bear's been casing the Kesslers' compost bin since spring, I watched him test three different gates before anybody with a trap showed up. Black bears can smell food from a mile off, so maybe lock the lids next time instead of calling us deer as witnesses.” — Walt, orchard-raiding deer
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