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Updated Wilton Bear Sightings: Statistics From Around The Area
Officials from the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection released updated black bear sighting statistics.

Officials from the state department of Energy and Environmental Protection released updated black bear sighting statistics this week. The latest chart dates from Oct. 3, 2016 to Sept. 25, 2017 and includes municipalities with at least one sighting.
Wilton reported 24 sightings during that period.
Here are the up-to-date numbers for communities in the Greater Danbury area as well as other locales in Fairfield County and beyond:
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- Bethel: 16
- Brookfield: 72
- Danbury: 85
- Easton: 20
- Fairfield: 6
- Greenwich: 3
- Monroe: 32
- Newtown: 100
- New Canaan: 3
- New Fairfield: 44
- New Milford: 257
- Oxford: 68
- Redding: 65
- Ridgefield: 22
- Shelton: 4
- Southbury: 122
- Stratford: 1
- Trumbull: 6
- Weston: 11
- Wilton: 24
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