For the first time in nearly a decade, a roughly 2,500-square-mile county in Alberta, Canada, has issued a county-wide “bear warning,” after numerous reports of people being bluff-charged by grizzlies and other dicey situations.

Kananaskis County in Alberta is under a county-wide warning, and some popular hiking trails there have been shut down as grizzlies and black bears gather to gorge on buffaloberries.

Alberta Minister of Forestry and Parks Todd Loewen said there hasn't been a Kananaskis-wide bear warning since 2016, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. (CBC) reported .

Bears Plus Crowds Equals Trouble

Alberta resident and bear safety expert Kim Titchener told Cowboy State Daily that the bears have really been piling in to feast on berries because of a bumper crop this year.

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