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What Is Wrong With This Picture?

Bears are attracted to anything that will provide calories, especially if it is smelly. Can you identify the irresistible bear foods in this picture? Click on the items you think bears can't resist.

Photos of bear awareness. This is a trash can. This is a bag of pet food. This is a bird feeder. This is not a bear attractant - try again! These are bags of trash. Is this a bear attractant?  Click to find out. This is a barbeque grill. This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again! This is not a bear attractant - try again!

Nine times out of ten, bears that get into attractants like unsecured garbage, birdseed from bird feeders, compost, fruit, barbeque grills, fruit trees and gardens go on to do it again and are eventually euthanized. Please help save Montana bears from this needless outcome by traveling these web pages and putting the tips here into practice.

Is Your Residence Bear-Friendly?

It’s especially important to maintain a bear-friendly residence that is free of bear attractants. It often takes dilligence and commitment to live in bear country. Learn more by taking the residential assessment to find unsuspecting attractants around your home.

Bear id card.

Bear Identification

One of the first steps in becoming bear aware is to know the difference between a black and grizzly bear and common characteristics of identification.

 


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