BOULDER, Colo. — Using a telescoping pole, Jordan Banfield pried pears from a backyard fruit tree and sorted them into baskets.
A pile of bear scat confirmed that Banfield, 23, and fellow volunteer fruit pickers with Community Fruit Rescue were not the first to pick fruit from this tree.
“In the last seven or eight years, we’ve had bears in our yard at least once a season,” said the home’s owner, Christa Mayer, who lives in the Carolyn Heights neighborhood. “Two days ago, one came over from the yard east of us and ate a bunch of pears.”…