No Charges Filed in Bear’s Death
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<i> From a Times Staff Writer</i>
HUNTINGTON BEACH — Two Orange County Boy Scout leaders who stoned a young black bear that raided their camp in Yosemite National Park will not be prosecuted for the animal’s death because post-mortem results were inconclusive.
The 75-pound bear was killed after several bears entered the Scouts’ Tuolemne Meadows campground in August. Scout leaders Ron Roach of Fountain Valley and Bob Woodard of Huntington Beach said they acted in self-defense and followed a park pamphlet’s instructions to discourage marauding bears by throwing stones.
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