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Oscar the dumpster-diving bear has acquired a taste for barbecue. The 338-pound male black bear was first sighted at DB’s Rustic Iron BBQ, a food trailer in the Terlingua Ghost Town, on November 6, nosing around in the dumpsters for scraps of owner Don Baucham’s popular smoked turkey. “Who can blame him?” said Krysta Demere, a bear specialist with Texas Parks and Wildlife. “DB’s got great barbecue.” Locals soon gave the bear his nickname, a nod to Oscar the Grouch, the Sesame Street muppet who lives in a trash can. But Oscar’s repeated appearances in Terlingua, the once desolate, now booming Big Bend town, was no joke to Demere and other experts who are closely monitoring an increasing number of human-bear interactions in West Texas. It…

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