JACKSON — A New Hampshire Fish and Game conservation officer was forced to euthanize a bear after it broke into a home on Wildflower Lane in Jackson on Saturday. The bear was a young male of about a year and a half old and under 100 pounds.
Wildflower Lane is off Switchback Way about 2 miles east of Jackson Village near the old Tyrol Ski Area.
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