New numbers from Colorado Parks and Wildlife (CPW) show a spike not only in bear sightings, but also an above-average number of bear conflicts.
Since the start of 2025, CPW recorded 5,259 bear reports. That’s about 300 more reports than in 2024, and one of the highest numbers since 2019, when they first started tracking the number of bear conflicts. The wildlife agency considers a conflict to be any situation where a bear shows troubling behavior, like getting into trash or damaging people’s property or vehicles.
Despite this upward swing in incidents around the state, CPW reports that in Northern Colorado, especially Larimer and Weld counties, reports were fairly quiet…