The examination of the racoon, beaver, and badger population found them all to be healthy..The rangers found a family of black bears dead and brought them to the vet to be autospied. The autospy revealved that they had eaten poison berries. Abby was informed that there wasn't much that could be done about it except the spraying might have caused the berries to become poison to the bear population. The rest of the black bear population was alright. The rangers went to the area where the family of bears was found and picked all of the berries of of the bushes to help prevent any more poisioning They dugged up the bushes for disposal and would plant more in the spring.
A couple of the park rangers drove to the cafe in town and was talking about the wildlife refudge's population of illnesses and the family of black bears being poisoned with their friends and family. Sitting behind them was a reporter who asked her boss if she could do a story about this. When the editorial board got together the decisin was made to go ahead with the story.At first the reporter was refused acess to the office and made a comment on the news. Abby was upset that her staff didn't tell her about wanting an interview with the media.