Residents Concerned About Bear Sightings
<div align="center"><a href="http://www.katc.com/news/residents-concerned-about-bear-sightings/"><img src="http://www.katc.com/images/thumbnails/77510AB02EA45E86B4CDFE265E566E99_200_200.jpg" alt="Residents Concerned About Bear Sightings" border="0" align="left" vspace="4" hspace="8"/></a></div><p>In St. Mary Parish, residents in the Berwick area are staying vigilant after several bear sightings.</p><p>Berwick police tell KATC this weekend they received four calls about bears in the area and at least one was spotted in a neighborhood.</p><p>So far across the state, 13 bears have become road-kill this year.</p><p>Hunters are seeing them by the dozen, but it's not unusual.</p><p>"They are becoming much, much less fearful of man and much more aggressive toward the other animals."</p><p>Scott Ramsey owns hunting property in the Patterson area and has seen an increase in the bear population. Two weeks ago while hunting, he and friends counted 34 bears on his property.
