‘There’s a bear on the deck’: What DC-area area homeowners should know about black bears

‘There’s a bear on the deck’: What DC-area area homeowners should know about black bears

A quiet night at home. That’s how Jason Enos, whose Germantown, Maryland, home backs up to Black Hill Regional Park, described the evening in May when his wife Sara happened to glance up from her book and tell him, “There’s a bear on the deck!” They turned off their indoor lights and Enos grabbed his camera to try to capture the moment from inside their house. “As much as both of us would have enjoyed giving him a scratch on the head and rubbing…