University of Montana Assistant Professor Alex Metcalf with the Human Dimensions Lab recently began looking at why bears and other wildlife returned again and again to certain neighborhoods for food.
The Challenge of Getting Neighbors to Stop Attracting Bears
University of Montana Assistant Professor Alex Metcalf with the Human Dimensions Lab recently began looking at why bears and other wildlife returned again and again to certain neighborhoods for food.
I live in the Miller Creek area and one of my neighbors insisted on leaving food out for the deer that have made a home in my yard.
I reminded him that it is illegal to feed wild animals that might turn our neighborhood into a game trail, and his reaction was ‘what, really?’
Metcalf has been studying the communication, or lack thereof, between neighbors on the subject.