CNN On Rascal Bears Helping Themselves To JBER Food Supplies

Bear sightings and incidents in the Anchorage-area’s Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson definitely happen, and a group of bruins are having a field day lately getting some free meals and finding shelter on the base. Here’s CNN with more:

On October 28, personnel with the JBER – often pronounced, fittingly, as “J-Bear” – Wildlife Conservation Law Enforcement Office responded to reports of a bear in a storage room on base. Upon arriving at the scene, they found the room had been the site of a bruin snackfest, with a mess of open food packaging scattered about, according to a statement from the base.

Images sent to CNN by the base showed open MREs strewn across the floor, though it is unclear what flavors they were. Bears apparently indulged their sweet tooth, too, with an open packet of M&Ms visible in the mess.

But bears aren’t only targeting food on the base near Anchorage. In another incident on November 2, JBER personnel responded to a bear inside a motor pool building. Upon arrival at the scene, agents observed a 1-year-old bear sitting inside the driver’s side of a Humvee.