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A black bear in the Smoky Mountains

Are Bear Attacks Common in the Smoky Mountains? Incidents in 2021

If we’re going to talk about the “rash” of bear attacks and bear encounters in and around the Great Smoky Mountain National Park, then we may as well start with this:  The remains of a friend of mine from high school were found down a ravine in Blount County earlier in the year. He’d been partially consumed by animals, presumably