A black bear fatally mauled a Downieville (Sierra County) woman in her home last fall in the first instance of a bear-caused human fatality in California.
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It s hard to count black bears. They don t travel in herds. They are solitary and reclusive omnivores, although they occasionally display their foraging skills when they wander into a populated area and break into a garbage can or, rarely, a house.