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...last thing the Park Service wants is food-conditioned grizzly bears roaming around the park, Fister said."Food-conditioned bears are a lot more likely to become problem animals," she said. "Allowing hunters to bait brown bears certainly...
...for the next six weeks, wildlife education specialist Kristen Romanoff said. "She's already a (garbage) food-conditioned bear," Romanoff said, explaining that the mature female bear was caught last year and released into the wild after...
...foods. On the other hand most black bears that injure people in campground and urban settings are food-conditioned bears. Food-conditioned bears associate people with food, garbage, or other novel items. Every time they overcome their reluctance...
...of black bears killed. "There is no evidence of a correlation between black bear baiting and occurrence of food-conditioned bears near human habitation," the agency said in its information sheet. Bruce Bartley, a spokesman with Fish and...
...foods. On the other hand most black bears that injure people in campground and urban settings are food-conditioned bears. Food-conditioned bears associate people with food, garbage, or other novel items. Every time they overcome their reluctance...
For years I have been hearing about all the problems "habituated" bears cause. This confuses me because I regularly work around habituated bears and they rarely cause my coworkers or me any problems at all.
...negligent feeding of bears through improperly stored garbage and food. As a result of these efforts, the number of food-conditioned bears killed in the Anchorage area has greatly decreased. Training bears to eat human food is a bad idea for everyone...
...the state's hunting regulations that results in food conditioned bears is unwise and totally inconsistent with these statements...urban area that is already struggling to resolve food conditioned bears from improper garbage storage. The constricted...
...the campers' food, which had not been properly stored. Park personnel said the improper storage has led to food-conditioned bears in the area, prompting officials to close the basin seven miles northwest of Kennecott. Authorities said there...