ASPEN — Bear activity in and around Aspen seems to have dropped off significantly in the past few days, but August still was a record month in terms of summertime bruin-related activity logged by local police over the past three years.
Through Tuesday, with three days remaining in the month, Aspen police have recorded 292 bear calls in August, a whopping 668 percent increase compared with the 38 bear calls logged in the same month last year. The department recorded only 11 bear calls in August 2010.
Bear calls in July also were higher at 119, compared with 77 in July 2011 and 97 in July 2010. June wasn’t as bad, with police logging 32 bear calls compared with 26 in the same month a year ago and 70 in June 2010.
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