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FILE - In this Sept. 26, 2006, file photo, a black bear that had been previously tranquilized and removed from a Waterbury, Conn., neighborhood in July 2006, chews on a garbage container in Wolcott, Conn. The Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection said Tuesday, July 14, 2020, that they are receiving "unprecedented numbers" of black bear complaints and that the state is on track to have three times as many cases of bears entering homes compared to the last two years. (Steven Valenti/Republican-American via AP, File)