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• Refer to "Final Report: East Front Grizzly Bear Study (FWP 1989) for details on grizzly bear 

 management in Region 4 and efforts to date to minimize human-grizzly bear conflict. (M.Madel) 



o Livestock carcass redistribution program - phase out bone-yards and/or help to redistribute 

 carcasses to remote sites away from human conflict areas. Identify key conflict areas and 

 redistribute carcasses to Blackleaf, Sun River, and Ear Mountain Wildlife Management Areas 

 (WMA) in the spring, after bear emergence from the den and prior to WMAs opening to the 

 public on May 15. Carcasses are also distributed on Pine Butte Preserve administered by The 

 Nature Conservancy (TNC). Distribution of the carcasses is randomly assigned so that bears 

 do not get accustomed to anv specific location as a potential food source and therefore 

 increase potential for human encounters and conflicts. FWP wildlife management specialists 

 work in cooperation with ranchers to redistribute carcasses form the Dupuyer and Choteau 

 areas and elsewhere along the FWP, in cooperation with Defenders of Wildlife (DW): 



■ Replaced non-secured dumpsters with bear-resistant dumpsters on prairie grassland 

 areas of ranches along the Eastern Front. 



o Cost-shared East Front in Region 4. 



• Worked with Pondera County commission on behalf of the community of Dupuyer, 

 MT, to provide 20 bear-resistant bins for the community so that garbage at all private 

 residences as well as the local park is no longer accessible to bears. 



■ Cost-shared, along with FWS and APHIS, to: 



• Install electric fences around sheep bedding grounds in the area north of Sun 

 River and south of Glacier National Park. 



• Install electric fences around pig-rearing facility west of Dupuyer, MT and a 

 livestock feedlot north of Choteau, MT. 



o Since 1986, FWP has worked to provide electric fencing around domestic apiaries. To date, 



>30 domestic bee yards have been fenced. 

 o Teton River Watershed Group, in an effort to deal with noxious weeds, is beginning a 



program in 2006 to use domestic sheep and goats to control nonnative vegetation. FWP's 



wildlife management specialist is working with this group to prevent grizzly bear conflict 



with their livestock. 

 o Working with the Hutterite colonies to cost-share for electric fences around sheep yards in 



the Sun River Watershed. 



• Food storage guidelines are in place on the Blackleaf, Ear Mountain, and Sun River Wildlife 

 Management Areas. These guidelines are similar to the NCDE food storage guidelines except for the 

 following: 



o Under "Food Storage Orders" - 



■ Food and garbage shall be stored in a bear-resistant manner when not in use during 

 daytime or nighttime hours (NCDE - all attractants must be within 50 feet of the 

 attendee, or attractants must be stored in a bear-resistant manner. During the 

 nighttime hours, no physical barrier, except tents or containers or attractant 

 packaging material may exist between the attendee and attractants which are not 

 stored in a bear-resistant manner.). 



■ "Carcasses" includes fish and bird, in addition to wildlife. (NCDE - wildlife only) 



■ Attractants can be burned in an open campfire, as long as they are burned 

 completely and not left in the campfire. (NCDE - attractants can't be burned in an 

 open campfire at all). 



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