Montana Code Annotated 87-3-130 "Taking of wildlife to protect persons and livestock" (HB 249 allows 

 cities to devise ordinances for wildlife. WIP, Jonkel: in Msla, council exists but food storage ordinances in 

 talking stage.) Additionally BBR, in cooperation with PWP, provides bear-resistant bins for check out. 

 Bins are used as a temporary solution until the individual household resolves the sanitation problem. 

 (Erin Edge) 



Cabinet-Yaak Grizzly Bear Citizen Committee 



Includes local organizations, elected officials, county commissioners, FWS representative, concerned 

 citizens. Round table discussions and transfer of information. Started in 1989 when 4 female grizzly bears 

 were transplanted in the Cabinet ecosystem for augmentation purposes. (Kasworm) 



Defenders of Wildlife (DW) 



DW oversees a livestock compensation program. DW will pay full market value of a confirmed grizzly 

 bear kill. Ranchers must get confirmation that livestock was killed by grizzly bear from either the FWP 

 wildlife management specialist or Wildlife Services. If these parties agree that it was a grizzly bear kill, 

 the rancher then goes directly through DW for payment, not through the state or federal agency. 



DW created The Bailey Wildlife Foundation Proactive Carnivore Conservation Fund in 1999, which 

 supports the use of nonlethal deterrents and preventative animal husbandry practices. Through the fund, 

 DW cost shares with communities, organizations, and agencies for conflict prevention. To date, DW has 

 provided funding for bear-resistant dumpsters; food poles in the back country on national forests; bear- 

 resistant food storage boxes for campgrounds and camp sites in Glacier National Park; bear-resistant 

 dumpsters for campsites in the Bitterroot Ecosystem; electric fencing around calving grounds, sheep 

 bedding grounds, apiaries, dumpsters; aversive conditioning of grizzly bears through the use of Karelian 

 bear dogs. Also DW has developed the "Living In Bear Country" brochure and has collaborated with 

 NWF to develop public service announcements regarding food storage and keeping a clean hunting 

 camp in the backcountry. (Minette Johnson) 



Great Northern Environmental Stewardship Association (GNESA) 



Great Northern Environmental Stewardship Area is a partnership of private landowners, citizens' 

 organizations, businesses, corporations and government agencies with a presence in the corridor that 

 bisects the natural lands of the Bob Marshall Complex and Glacier National Park. This corridor holds 

 unparalleled nahiral landscapes, critical wildlife habitat, a pistine free flowing river and vital 

 transportation and utility routes, all of which contribute essential values to our region. We work together 

 for an enlightened stewardship and collaborative responsibility for our human activities in these precious 

 lands. Some of GNESA's most important work has been with local residents to keep attractants such as 

 bird feeders and ripened fruit out of reach of bears. A major improvement has been to install bear-proof 

 dumpsters in many areas of the corridor. ( Dan Vincent). 



Great Bear Foundation (GBF) 



This group uses a variety of approaches to educate the public on ways to live and work in grizzly 



countrv. They have also cost shared on preventative measures in the past. 



Living With Wildlife Foundation (LWWL) 



Developed and distributed "Living with Predators Resource Guide for Wildlife Professionals" (2003 

 edidon). LWWL, in cooperation with FWP, established a peer-reviewed tesHng protocol for bear-resistant 

 products working with the Grizzly Discovery Center. Maintains a database of products being used, how 

 effective they are, general performance, etc. they conduct product testing on various electric fencing 



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