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May 15, 2008 11:35 am US/Pacific
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Officials Find Cubs Orphaned After N.H. Crash
MANCHESTER, N.H. (CBS) ―
New Hampshire Fish and Game officials have found the two small bear cubs whose mother was hit and killed by a motorcyclist in New Hampshire on Tuesday.
The cubs were found safe and taken to Ben Kilham - known as the "bear man" - in Lyme, N.H., where they will be raised and eventually released back into the wild, reports CBS station WBZ-TV in Boston.
Kilham has helped raise dozens of black bear cubs for more than a decade.
The biker, John Fadone, 54, was rushed to Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon, where he is being treated for serious head injuries.
Fadone apparently hit and killed the black bear while her two little cubs sat in a nearby pine tree.
When fish and game officers arrived on the scene, they spotted the cubs and made several unsuccessful attempts to pluck them out of the tree. Officials tried to coax the bears out of the tree until 10 p.m. Fish and game then set up traps overnight to catch them.
The bears, believed to be only a few months old, did manage to get down, but they did not go into the traps.
Officials say they did find the two cubs on Wednesday and have taken them to Lyme to be with Kilham.
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