JEFFERSON COUNTY, Colo. (KDVR) — Residents in the Front Range can expect to see more bear activity as the hibernation season nears.

Colorado Parks and Wildlife reports more than 3,000 bear encounters so far this year. That number is expected to increase as bears now require more than 20,000 calories a day to prepare for the winter months.

“This is the period of time we call hyperphagia, so it’s when they try to eat as much as they can to sustain themselves through their winter sleep,” said CPW spokesperson Kara Van Hoose.

Stuart Sauer tells FOX31 he often sees bears twice a day at his Jefferson County home, but was shocked to see a huge bear pulling his 500-pound trailer toward an embankment.

“A bear has pulled the trailer down the hillside. There was a trash can attached to it to keep

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