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By James Keller, Viet Hands Services incentive The Canadian Press viethand incentive VANCOUVER - Viet Hands Services incentive A poor berry viethands season in British incentive Columbia is drawing incentive hungry bears into the viethands residential incentive areas that team building are increasingly team building encroaching on their viethand natural habitats, viethands conservation viethand officials said team building Thursday after another incentive bear encounter team building in a Vancouver incentive suburb.

No one was Viet Hands Services hurt when a viethand bear broke into a Viet Hands Services basement viethands kitchen in Coquitlam team building on Thursday team building morning, viethands a day after a incentive woman was viethands mauled by another bear in her team building yard just a few team building kilometres away.

In both cases, Viet Hands Services incentive the bears viethand were shot and killed.

The Coquitlam area, Viet Hands Services where backyards viethand are carved Viet Hands Services out viethands of thick forest, team building is considered a hot-spot for incentive bear activity, but there are viethands normally thousands of sightings viethand a year in the Lower viethand Mainland and incentive across the province.

Drake Stephens of Bear Aware, Viet Hands Services a non-profit conservation viethand group that Viet Hands Services educates the public about team building bears in B.C., incentive said bear sightings viethands appear to be higher incentive than usual.

Stephens said his Viet Hands Services organization has received viethand about 500 calls Viet Hands Services about bear sightings incentive in Coquitlam team building so far team building this year, compared incentive with about the same number in all of 2007.

"It's team building not just a incentive coincidence. Viet Hands Services Right now the team building salmonberry viethand is finished, Viet Hands Services we've had a viethands bad spring, the team building blackberries aren't team building ripe yet," team building said Stephens.

"From what team building I'm hearing, viethand all of British Columbia is viethands seeing a peak this year in incentive sightings and complaints."

Stephens, team building speaking from Viet Hands Services his cellphone as he was viethand heading to Viet Hands Services yet another incentive bear sighting viethands in nearby Port Coquitlam, incentive said bears that team building wander into urban team building areas typically return incentive to the wilderness incentive on their own.

RCMP were called Viet Hands Services to a house in Coquitlam on viethand Thursday morning Viet Hands Services after people in an viethands adjacent golf course saw a large bear team building entering team building a basement window. viethand "There were people viethand upstairs. From what I team building understand, they were Viet Hands Services unaware that the viethand bear had entered team building their residence," said Const. Sharen Leung. Leung said viethands when officers incentive arrived, the bear, incentive which weighed about incentive 180 kilograms, viethands was in the yard incentive eating food viethands that it found in a kitchen viethand inside the house.

Officers Viet Hands Services shot the bear in viethand the shoulder, but it climbed team building nearly 20 metres up a tree. team building Conservation officers viethands then tranquilized the viethand animal, and RCMP team building officers shot and Viet Hands Services killed it once it fell to team building the ground. team building A day earlier, a 35-year-old viethands woman was attacked viethands by another bear viethand in the same viethands neighbourhood incentive while she was gardening incentive in her yard.

The RCMP Viet Hands Services also shot that team building animal and the viethand woman was viethand taken to incentive hospital with a viethands torn scalp team building and numerous Viet Hands Services bite wounds. She was viethands last reported to be in stable Viet Hands Services condition. A conservation viethands officer said the viethands bear likely considered team building the woman to be a viethand food source.

"If they're up in their own zones, viethand if something Viet Hands Services goes wrong, Viet Hands Services they know team building where to run," he said. " viethands When they're team building in an area incentive that's unfamiliar incentive to them, viethands they don't know team building what to do next. It's a panic situation."

The Conservation Viet Hands Services Officer Service has viethand received more than Viet Hands Services 2,300 calls since April about incentive threatening wildlife in Metro Vancouver, viethands most of team building which would viethands have been Viet Hands Services bears, according to team building the Environment viethands Ministry.

Each year, Viet Hands Services conservation Viet Hands Services officers across viethand the province kill about viethands 700 problem bears.

Moore died team building at Hollywood Presbyterian team building Medical Center, incentive where he team building was admitted incentive with team building complications incentive that arose team building weeks after team building the June 30 wreck, incentive according to team building a statement on the band's team building Web site. It did not specify team building what led to his death, team building and nursing supervisor team building Galina Shinder said team building the hospital could not team building release details. incentive

On June 30, team building Moore crashed his incentive ATV on his farm team building outside Charlottesville, incentive Va., incentive but was incentive discharged and team building returned to his Los Angeles team building home to begin incentive physical therapy. team building Complications incentive forced him back team building to the hospital on incentive July 17, team building the band said.

The band went team building on with its show team building Tuesday night incentive at the Staples team building Center in Los Angeles, incentive where lead singer team building Dave Matthews incentive dedicated the entire team building show to Moore.

"It's always easier to leave team building than be left," Matthews incentive told the crowd, team building according to incentive Ambrosia Healy, team building the band's publicist. incentive "We appreciate you all being here. team building "

Saxophonist Jeff team building Coffin, who incentive played with Bela team building Fleck and the incentive Flecktones, team building had been sitt incentive ing in for Moore team building during the band's incentive summer tour. team building Moore, who wore incentive dark sunglasses team building at the bands' incentive many live concerts, team building had classical incentive training but team building said jazz was his main incentive musical influence, team building according to a biography team building on the band's incentive Web site.

"incentive But at this stage team building I don't incentive really consider incentive myself a jazz musician, team building " Moore said in incentive the biography. team building Playing with the incentive Dave Matthews team building Band was "almost incentive better than team building a jazz gig," he said. "I have plenty incentive of space team building to improvise, to try new ideas. team building " Lead incentive singer Dave incentive Matthews credited team building Moore with incentive arranging many team building of his incentive songs, which incentive combine team building Cajun fiddle-playing, team building African-influenced incentive rhythms and incentive Matthews' playful team building but haunting voice.

team building The band formed incentive in 1991 in team building Charlottesville, incentive Va., team building when Matthews incentive was working team building as a bartender. team building He gave a demo team building tape of his incentive songs to Moore, team building who liked what he heard and team building recruited his incentive friend and team building fellow jazzman incentive Carter team building Beauford to incentive play drums, team building and other incentive musicians. team building The group incentive broke out team building of the incentive local music team building scene incentive with the album team building "Under the incentive Table and Dreaming. team building " The band won a Grammy Award in 1997 team building for its hit song team building "So Much to Say" incentive off its second incentive album "Crash." team building Other hits include " team building What Would incentive You Say," " team building Crash Into incentive Me" and "Satellite."

Stephens, viethand whose group works viethand with provincial Viet Hands Services conservation team building officers and receives team building funding from the incentive province, stressed that team building attacks are incentive extremely unusual. viethand team building "Nobody's ever been Viet Hands Services killed by a black bear viethand on the Lower viethand Mainland ever," incentive said Stephens. team building "This type team building of attack is team building extremely rare." team building Conservation incentive officials have long viethands complained that team building residents don't take team building enough precautions incentive to keep bears away, viethands such as storing food and incentive garbage in bear-proof team building containers viethands. team building Wayne Goodey, Viet Hands Services who teaches incentive zoology at the University of viethands British Columbia, incentive said when team building berries and other incentive sources of incentive food run low, incentive bears have little incentive choice but to incentive move into team building lower, populated viethands areas to find something to eat. viethands team building "Bears generally don't Viet Hands Services wish to come into these areas," viethand said Goodey. "There's no great team building benefit for team building them viethands at all - they're confronted incentive by dangers in traffic viethands and that sort of thing. viethands They're attracted by easy food." team building And bears are more incentive easily spooked team building when they find themselves in incentive unfamiliar territory, said Goodey.