A California man was attacked by a black bear near the Sierra Nevada foothills. On Monday, Aug. 12, a man, 24, was on a run in the Long Barn community when he was chased and attacked by a female bear after he said he saw the bear with what he believed to be a cub by the side of the road, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife.

A jogger in Tuolumne County had a near-death encounter with a mother bear on Monday, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. The 24-year-old man was jogging along North Fork Road in Long Barn at around 5 p.