Season 1; Season 2; Be the first to review this item 2009 2 Seasons 7+ In a resort town where tourists and bears collide, it's up to the Bear Whisperer to keep the peace. These big bears are non-stop eating machines who command the best habitats, the best feeding areas, and the respect of lesser bears, but even they must respect the one man in town who stands up to them: the Bear Whisperer, Steve Searles.The Bear Whisperer is available to watch and stream on Janson Media. He joins the Polar Bear Alert team as they transport a captured bear by helicopter to a release site outside town.We can remove the first show in the list to add this one. It's up to Bear Whisperer Steve Searles to teach these clueless young bears how to stay out of trouble until it's time to return to their dens for winter hibernation. Searles, a longtime hunter, was originally hired by the town to kill bears that were causing havoc. Season 1; Season 2; 2009 2 Seasons 7+ In a resort town where tourists and bears collide, it's up to the Bear Whisperer to keep the peace. It's the job of Bear Whisperer Steve Searles to use aversion therapy to teach them that bad behavior will be punished.Three young bears show up in the town of Mammoth Lakes. In a resort town where tourists and bears collide, it’s up to Steve to keep the peace. Season 1; Season 2; 2009 2 Seasons ALL. Journey to Mammoth Lakes, California, a community in a unique situation, as summer tourists arrive and so do black bears, fresh from hibernation and anxious to pack on pounds.
In rare cases, bears in Mammoth Lakes will break into trash bins, cars, even houses in search of easy pickings. “The question, to me, is how much damage people will tolerate,” he said. Watch for 5 minutes and you will be hooked! Journey to Mammoth Lakes, California, a community in a unique situation, as summer tourists arrive and so do black bears, fresh from hibernation and anxious to pack on pounds. In this mountain town in California’s Eastern Sierra, Mr. Searles’s gravelly timbre was usually all the bears needed to straighten up. He had no training in biology or animal behavior, but used nonlethal tactics to help some bears change their ways, inspiring or training other communities to try similar approaches.#styln-briefing-block a { color: #121212; }“I never met a bear that couldn’t learn,” he said. But he said his officers would be able to handle black bear calls.#styln-briefing-block .briefing-block-update-time a { color: #999; font-size: 12px; }As the coronavirus pandemic wears on, Mammoth Lakes, like municipalities nationwide, has faced budget shortfalls and started looking for cuts. It had made it as far as Mr. Pondella’s living room once.“If the residents are happy and they think he’s doing a good job and they feel like having him there addresses the issue, that’s a good thing,” said Mr. Hechtel, who spent more than 30 years studying bears.You can’t teach a misbehaving black bear a lesson through a Zoom conference call.“I’ve been pretty down in the dumps but I went on a bicycle ride up into the lakes basin and thought ‘Hey, you’re living in paradise, bro’,” he said. Season 1 Episode 2. Season 2. PBS is a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization.Use one of the services below to sign in to PBS:Mark Evans travels to the shores of Canada’s Hudson Bay, where polar bears are causing havoc in isolated communities. Polar Bear. Among the hundreds of supportive replies to a short Facebook post Mr. Searles wrote, one commenter said Mammoth’s bears “just lost their best friend.”In other parts of California, the state’s Department of Fish and Wildlife captures and euthanizes black bears that have become habituated to humans and cause property damage, or issues permits for owners to do it themselves.#styln-briefing-block .briefing-block-footer a { border-bottom: 1px solid #ccc; }“With me or without me, we’ve set the example here in Mammoth of what is possible,” he said. The bears are the pre-teens of the bear world and they're on their own without their mothers for the first time. Bears that habitually break into homes and cars in search of food aren’t likely to change, he said, no matter how much you yell. He said he won’t respond to bear calls without the badge and authority behind it. “You get out of here.”#styln-briefing-block .briefing-block-header-section { margin-bottom: 16px; }Mr. Hechtel said it wouldn’t be practical for state wildlife agencies to emulate Mr. Searles’s tactics on a broader scale. The Roku Channel is your home for free and premium TV, anywhere you go. The The Bear Whisperer episode guide includes recaps for every episode from every season and a full list of where you can watch episodes online instantly. The Bear Whisperer follows professional bear-wrangler, Steve Searles, over the course of several months as he uses non-lethal means to ensure that humans and bears can co-exist. A bear's summer is all about food -- packing on enough weight to make it through the next winter hibernation. Journey to Mammoth Lakes, California, a community in a unique situation, as summer tourists arrive and so do black bears, fresh from hibernation and anxious to pack on poundsThe biggest of the black bears are rumbling into town.