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Article: Solo, cubs spared; they'll be sent to a wildlife sanctuary.(NEWS)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- December 22, 2007
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Byline: Paul Walsh; Staff Writer
Solo, the seemingly tame black bear that is hibernating with her two cubs under a northern Minnesota lake cabin, won the support Friday of Gov. Tim Pawlenty and soon will avoid being destroyed and instead travel with her little ones to a wildlife sanctuary in South Dakota or elsewhere, state officials said.
State Rep. David Dill, DFL-Crane, said that the state Department of Natural Resources told him Thursday evening that a sanctuary in the Black Hills is willing to receive the bears, making Pawlenty's reprieve unnecessary.
Friday, DNR official Bob Meier said that the Black Hills site is one option among several that the department ...