Forgetting to "Stash Your Trash" Could Encourage a Roaming Bear to Stay
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.
“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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