'Somewhere, somebody was watching out for this bear.”
Tamarack the bear — named by his rescuers at Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care — is seemingly alive and well, and was having a whale of a time recently playing with a toy bear in a South LakeIn a video dated May 23 and posted last week by Tahoe Toogee, an Instagram account that documents black bear sightings in the South Lake Tahoe region, the now fully grown bear can be seen wading into a sun-dappled creek and toying with what looks like a teddy bear garden ornament.
"No idea where that bear bath toy came from, maybe he poached it from a nearby apartment complex," the account wrote. The bear is seemingly identifiable as Tamarack by the darkened burn scars on his toes, though we are unable to verify the identity of the animal. Those burns came from the severe injuries the cub got at only six months old when he was caught in the Tamarack Fire in Markleville in June 2021.Courtesy of Lake Tahoe Wildlife Carereturning to their evacuated Markleville home after the 68,000-acre blaze subsided.
Only days later, little Tamarack was reenergized enough to outwit his carers and escape captivity, still in bandages.
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