Safety Tips to Avoid Bear Encounters At Home

• Keep food attractants secured. Attractants include garbage, pet and livestock food, birdfeeders, and fruit trees, livestock, gardens, and outdoor food cookers.
• Chickens and livestock should be properly secured with electric fencing or inside a closed shed with a door.

Bears that have easy access to backyard attractants tend to stay around, which leads to human safety concerns and sometimes the need to relocate or euthanize bears if they become hooked on these backyard foods instead of natural sources.

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