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MARYLAND
Man is fatally shot
i n P r. George’s County
A man was fatally shot Friday
night in Prince George’s County,
police said.
The man was found around
7:50 p.m. in the 2500 block of
Kent Town Place, after a shooting
was reported there.
The man was found outdoors.
He had a gunshot wound and
died at the scene, police said.
The site is south of Landover
Road and east of Route 50 in the
Kentland area of the county.
— Martin Weil
MARYLAND
Triple shooting leaves
teen critically wounded
A teenager was critically
wounded Friday evening in a
triple shooting in the Marlow
Heights area of Prince George’s
County, police said.
The gunfire broke out around
5:30 p.m. in the 4200 block of
28th Avenue, said Cpl. Antonia
Washington, a police
spokeswoman.
The critically wounded
teenager was described as male,
but no age was immediately
available. A woman was also
wounded, police said, and the
third victim was described as
male, but no age was given.
The gunfire was reported near
the Marlow Heights shopping
center, close to St. Barnabas Road
and Branch Avenue, police said.
— Martin Weil
VIRGINIA
Man gets 2 8 years
i n fatal hit-and-run
A Virginia tow truck driver
who struck and killed a police
captain, then fled, has been
sentenced to 28 years in prison.
Justin Thomas Regensburg, 31,
was convicted in September after
he pleaded guilty to felony
homicide and hit-and-run.
A Henrico Circuit Court judge
on Friday sentenced Regensburg
to 40 years, with 15 suspended, on
the homicide charge. He was
sentenced to five years, with two
years suspended, for the hit-and-
run, said Cathy Black, special
prosecutor from Williamsburg-
James City County.
Donald Lambert Jr., 55, was
jogging near his home on the
morning of Feb. 27, 2021, when he
was struck by a tow truck driven
by Regensburg, who fled on foot.
The next day, he was arrested
in King William County after a
brief chase. He was convicted of
eluding police, but is awaiting
sentencing on that charge.
Lambert had worked for the
Henrico County police since 1987.
— Associated Press
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LOTTERIESTransportation services
l Metrorail is on a Saturday schedule from 5 a.m. to midnight with off-peak
fares in effect. Because of track work on the Yellow and Blue lines, the six
stations south of Reagan National Airport are closed but serviced by free
shuttle buses. Metrobus is on a Saturday supplemental schedule.
MetroAccess has regular service but subscription trips are canceled. For
information, go to wmata.com.
l Ride-On and Loudoun Bus are on reduced schedules.l DASH is on a Saturday schedule.l CUE is on a modified weekday schedule.l Fairfax Connector is on a holiday weekday schedule.l ART is running routes 41, 42, 45, 51, 55 and 87 only on a Sunday
schedule.l The Bus in Prince George’s County is on a regular schedule.l PRTC OmniRide is on a regular schedule but OmniRide Express is not
running.
l MTA Commuter Bus is running Route 201 only on a weekend holiday
schedule.l MARC is running an “R” schedule on all three lines.l VRE is not running.Closed everywhereBanks: Most open but closing early
Federal government offices
Post offices: No mail delivery except for Express Mail
Courts: Closed except for adult arraignments, juvenile referrals in the
DistrictVaried restrictionsDistrict^ Maryland^ Virginia
Traffic,
parkingRush-hour
restrictions lifted.
No city parking
enforcement
except along the
D.C. Streetcar line.Meters not
enforced in
Montgomery and
Prince George’s
except at National
Harbor and the
Prince George’s
Department of
Corrections.HOV restrictions
lifted on I-66 and I-- Meters not
enforced in
Arlington and city
of Alexandria.
Trash,
recy c lingNo collections.
Pickups slide one
day to the end of
the week.In Anne Arundel
and Howard,
regular collections.
In Montgomery, no
collections.
Pickups slide one
day to the end of
the week. In Prince
George’s, organics
collections only.
Landfill closed in
Anne Arundel.
Open elsewhere.
Montgomery
Transfer Station
open.Regular county
collections in
Arlington and
Fairfax. In the cities
of Fairfax and
Alexandria,
Monday collections
are made on
Tuesday. Landfills
open.Liquor
storesOpen at owner’s
discretion.Montgomery ABC
stores open until 6
p.m. Elsewhere at
owner’s discretion.Open.Schools Closed. Open in Howard.
Closed elsewhere.Closed.Librar iesOpen. Open in Anne
Arundel and
Frederick. Closed
elsewhere.Open in Prince
William. Closed
elsewhere.Local
govern ent
officesClosed. Closed. Closed.BY DANA HEDGPETHTry walking into the den of a
roughly 200-pound mother black
bear while she’s watching and
creep close enough to place an
orphaned cub next to her. Then,
back away slowly and hope she’ll
take it in as one of her own.
Yikes.
That’s what a team of wildlife
biologists with the Virginia De-
partment of Wildlife Resources
(DWR) is doing as part of a proj-
ect near Farmville in central Vir-
ginia, as they try to accomplish
two goals: place orphaned bear
cubs with foster bears, and learn
more about the species’ habits
and lifestyle.
The black bear population in
Virginia has made a comeback,
experts said. Instead of being
found mainly in the mountainous
and southeastern parts of the
state near the Great Dismal
Swamp, in the past two decades
more black bears have been found
in the central part of the state.
“There’s still a very healthy
population of bears in the moun-
tains, but they’re running out of
room,” said Katie Martin, a bear
biologist for DWR. “So when
moms kick those yearlings out,
they have to go find their own
territory.”
In Virginia, black bears almost
went extinct in the early 1900 s as
they were overhunted, but after
limits were imposed on the num-
ber that can be harvested, their
population has rebounded, Mar-
tin said. There are about 18,000 to
20,000 black bears in Virginia.
Martin and her group started a
program to learn more about
bears and their habits, while also
considering whether they would
be good candidates as foster
moms.
They use a collar outfitted with
a GPS system to track the bears
and learn about their eating hab-
its, movement and reproduction.
The collars are typically placed on
bears in the summer, which helps
biologists find them in the winter
when they need to place or-phaned cubs — otherwise trying
to find a wild bear is like “trying
to find a needle in a haystack,”
Martin said.
Outfitting a bear with a collar
is no easy task.
Wildlife officials set up a “trap”
made from large culvert pipes,
outfitted with doors on each end.
They put soft bedding inside,
then bait the trap with sunflower
seeds covered in molasses or a bit
of vanilla.
And they wait.
Once the bear is lured in, the
doors go down and she’s caught.
They immobilize her with a seda-
tive by using a syringe attached to
the end of a pole. Once the bear is
asleep, experts take her out of the
trap, check her weight and age,
then outfit her with the battery-
run collar.
Martin said if her cubs are
nearby, they usually go up a tree
and watch as humans work on
their mother. The process takes
about 30 minutes.
They then give the bear a “re-versal agent” that wakes her be-
fore backing away. The mother
bear, Martin said, “feels like she’s
taking a little nap,” and when she
wakes up “she can’t remember
anything.”
The batteries in the collar last
about two years, at which point
the collar falls off. Martin’s team
tracks the collar and refurbishes
it to use again.
They use wildlife cameras and
data collected from the collar to
determine whether the mom
should foster a new cub. “We’re
looking to see if she’s in good
shape, nice and fat, and we’re
watching to see if she can handle
another cub,” Martin said.
Experts will track the mother
bears that have been collared and
place a new cub with her, careful-
ly approaching when she’s in a
den with her other cubs.
To put the new cub in the den,
Martin said, she and her team
often wait for a rainy, cold day.
She rubs Vaseline on the cub’s
head to get rid of any humanscent, wraps it in a blanket, tucks
it in the bib pocket of her overalls,
then quietly places the cub near
the den.
“Once that cold air hits the cub,
it starts crying and the motherbear’s instinct is ‘There’s a cub
crying, I need to take care of it,’ ”
Martin said. “She will reach out,
pull it into the den and we back
out and leave them alone.”
Since Martin and her team
started their work, they’ve put
collars on nearly 40 bears in five
years. They have placed close to
20 cubs with foster mama bears.
Since the coronavirus pandem-
ic began, she said, there’s been a
rise in the number of cubs
brought in by humans. Martin
said bears typically run off if they
hear a dog barking as a protective
mechanism for their cubs. The
mama bear’s “thinking, ‘I’ll make
the intruder follow me and I’ll
come back later to get my cubs,’ ”
Martin said. “She’s trying to use
herself as a distraction to protect
her cubs.”
But humans intervene, Martin
said, and people find the cubs and
think “they’re crying and they’re
cute and alone so they’ll pick
them up.” Martin said that’s the
“worst thing to do.”
“The female bear is going to
come back,” Martin said. “They’re
wonderful moms and their best
defense is to make you follow her
and run away.”
Martin said her group works to
return cubs to foster moms in the
wild because that’s the best place
for them to “learn how to be a
bear.”
“A mother bear knows where
the best blackberries and blue-
berries are,” Martin said. “In the
fall, she’s teaching them where
the best acorns are. She teaches
them how to dig a den, how to
avoid people, where to go so
they’re not disturbed, how to
climb trees.”
This winter, Martin said, she’s
not placed any orphaned cubs in
dens — which to her is a victory
that the cubs were left alone by
humans. She recently checked on
a cub she placed last winter with a
female bear they named Harri-
son.
“The cubs looked good and
healthy,” she said. “That was a
true success.”VIRGINIAWildlife team places orphaned black bears with foster mamasLYNDA RICHARDSON/VIRGINIA DEPARTMENT OF WILDLIFE RESOURCES
Experts with the Virginia Department of Wildlife Resources place a collar on a sedated female bear.
The GPS collar allows the wildlife team to track bears and place orphaned cubs with them in winter.GARET BOSINGER/VIRGINIA
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