Bear activity has slowed down in Pitkin County in the last week “since the Dalai Lama left,” joked Perry Will of the Colorado Division of Wildlife.

Seriously, though, lots of berries are starting to sprout in the backcountry, and since berries are bears’ primary and favorite food source, that should keep them from feeling the need to wander into people territory too often. Will noted that some serviceberries are starting to turn and the chokecherries at lower elevations are ripening.

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