Garbage Tempts Bears: Stash Trash to Keep Bears Moving
Georgia Department of Natural Resources sent this bulletin at 05/26/2016 05:10 PM EDT
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TRASH ENCOURAGES BEARS TO STAY: LEARN TO STASH IT
Garbage is irresistible to a hungry black bear. The presence of available garbage encourages bears to change their normal movement patterns and “hang out” in non-traditional range areas. What can you do? One of the first, and most important, things to do is to stash your trash to resolve potential human-bear conflicts.
“Feeding bears, whether intentional or not, creates habituated bears,” explains Adam Hammond, wildlife biologist with the Georgia Department of Natural Resources’ Wildlife Resources Division. “When a bear learns that it can get a ‘free meal’ from garbage, it’s going to return again and again until eventually it loses its natural fear of humans, which can lead to potential conflict issues.”
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