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Nearly three weeks after a wildfire closed Yosemite Valley to the public, park officials welcomed back visitors on Tuesday. This was great news for tourists from Israel, Italy, Germany and many other points on the globe who drove into a park still hazy from the diminished but still active Ferguson Fire.

But the reopening was most likely a disappointment for some of the park’s longstanding residents — namely the bears, gray foxes, coyotes, deer and bobcats that had taken advantage of the park’s closing to ramble more freely across the valley floor.

“The bears were having a field day,” said Scott Gediman, a spokesman for the park. “With so few people there they were roaming everywhere, kind of just walking around. It was cool, an unforeseen benefit.”

The bears were especially happy to climb some of the apple trees in Curry Village and feast on the harvest.