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State biologist: Nottoway has robust black bear population; residents urged to secure trash and feeders
5086644 · June 27, 2025
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Summary
A Virginia wildlife biologist told supervisors that black bears have rebounded in Nottoway County and urged residents to secure trash and remove bird feeders to reduce human‑bear conflicts.
Katie Martin, the state’s deer/bear/turkey biologist, told the Nottoway County Board of Supervisors on June 26 that black bear numbers have rebounded across the Piedmont and that Nottoway County offers very good habitat.
Martin said bears were extirpated locally in the early 1900s but have steadily returned over the past several decades. She said Nottoway sits in the Virginia black‑bear…
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