Commissioners for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County voted unanimously Tuesday to establish an Urban Wildlife Management Task Force to ponder recommendations for dealing with wildlife in Anaconda and vicinity.
Commissioners for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County voted unanimously Tuesday to establish an Urban Wildlife Management Task Force to ponder recommendations for dealing with wildlife in Anaconda and vicinity.
The Anaconda-Deer Lodge County Commission seems poised to establish a nine-member task force to assess the impacts of habituated wildlife on communities in the city-county and make recommendations.
Commissioners for Anaconda-Deer Lodge County completed a first reading Tuesday night of a proposed ordinance that would create an urban wildlife task force to address concerns about resident mule deer.
DUNCAN ADAMS
MICHAEL CAST
A male grizzly bear captured last fall near Gold Creek and relocated in the vicinity of the Scapegoat Wilderness wandered back to the region in recent weeks and turned up at a chicken coop near Drummond.
The Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks set a live trap in Edwards Gulch on April 20 to try for another capture of the GPS-collared grizzly. But he wandered off.
James Jonkel, a wildlife management specialist for FWP, said the bear has been âbouncing around in the east Garnets.â He said the bear, which FWP workers named Lingenpolter in the fall, occasionally ambles down to Interstate 90, apparently to consume road kill.