BOISE, Idaho — The black bear cub injured in a Washington wildfire last year is finally going home.
The Idaho Statesman reports (http://bit.ly/1FegcPl) that that the 2-year-old female black bear named Cinder will be released into the wild in June.
She was found under a horse trailer in Methow Valley following a wildfire in summer 2014. Cinder’s paws were so severely burned that she wasn’t even walking on them. Instead, she was pulling herself along by her elbows.
The bear was initially sent to Lake Tahoe Wildlife Care in California before continuing her recovery at Idaho Black Bear Rehab in Garden City.
She’s heading back to Washington on June 3 with another bear, Kaulana, who was also injured by wildfires.
