Photo by Denise Jones — Special to the Plaindealer

This young bear decided to hang out in a cottonwood tree at Ridgway’s Hartwell Park on Saturday while families played in the park. Ridgway Marshal Shane Schmalz said his deputies monitored the bear, contacted wildlife officials and encouraged people to move away from the area. Eventually the bear came down far enough to be targeted with nonlethal rubber bullets, a hazing technique that encourages them to not have positive interactions with hu...