Fwd: Bear in urban places

Living in Bear Country

Living in a state with large predators comes with responsibilities. In order to maintain healthy bear populations and reduce conflicts with bears, certain precautions should be taken. Whether it is keeping the garbage at your home secure, or maintaining a clean campsite, your behavior often dictates the bear's behavior. Learn more about living and camping in bear country on these pages so that you, and the bears, can live safely together.

http://www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=livingwithbears.main



Urban Wildlife issues

Black Bear Education and Enforcement Pilot
From April to November of 2012 and 2013, the city conducted the Black Bear Education and Enforcement pilot program. City staff submitted a first-year report in early 2013. In the fall of 2013, four bears that had been scavenging on trash were killed by Colorado Parks and Wildlife officers to protect public safety, increasing community and council attention on creating regulations to protect bears. In early 2014, staff returned to council with options for how to better secure trash from bears. The options were informed by outcomes and analysis of the two-year pilot program. A new ordinance for securing trash from bears was created in March 2014, and enforcement of the new ordinance will begin Oct. 1, 2014.

https://bouldercolorado.gov/wildlife/urban-wildlife-issues

Human-caused grizzly bear mortality

Human-caused mortality is the greatest source of mortality for grizzly bears and the primary factor limiting grizzly bear populations. Research indicates that 77 to 85 per cent of radio-collared grizzlies die at the hands of humans [pdf], and between 17 and 54 per cent of human-caused mortalities go unreported. --

http://davidsuzuki.org/issues/wildlife-habitat/projects/grizzly-bears/learnmore/