• The test is available on line at www.fwp.state.mt.us , by mail, or at regional headquarters in 

 Regions 1-5. 



Limited quota big game hunting seasons exist in many areas occupied by grizzly bears. Limited 

 quota licenses require a special application and license issuance process. A brochure on bear 

 country safety should be mailed to each successful applicant when their license is issued; this 

 includes both resident and non-resident hunters. 



FWP will encourage federal land management and wildlife agencies to continue to play a vital 

 role in grizzly bear education. FWP will continue to encourage and coordinate with these 

 agencies to provide bear safety literature at their respective trailheads and offices in occupied 

 bear areas. Often this is already happening. The Forest Service should be encouraged to assess 

 the appropriate number and location of bear resistant food storage containers (bear boxes), meat 

 poles, and bear resistant garbage containers (at all campsites) in occupied areas in order to 

 protect bears while assuring wilderness values. 



FWP will promote the grizzly bear as a valuable state resource through public school and 

 community presentations, community-based workshops, news releases, magazine articles, and 

 radio and television spots. 



The Board of Outfitters will be encouraged to require that all outfitters and guides that provide 

 services within areas occupied by bears be certified in human safety in bear country. The 

 outfitting industry has voluntarily developed a bear education course in partnership with the U.S. 

 Fish and Wildlife Service, U.S. Forest Service, National Park Service, the Wyoming Game and 

 Fish, and the Professional Guides Institution. This course would serve as the model for training 

 in Montana. 



A bear safety video has been purchased and made available by FWP. 



Examples of current FWP programs are as follows: 



FWP presentations to schools, colleges, civic and sportsmen's groups. 



Interviews with newspaper, radio, and TV reporters. 



Statewide newspaper features. 



News releases, some with other interested cooperators. 



Radio reports. 



FWP Web site devoted to bear identification. 



Public Information Plan designed by Conservation/Education Division in reaching public. 



Video entitled "Bears and Bees," advising beekeepers about avoiding conflicts with bears. 



Information on electric fencing to keep bears out of orchards, garbage, grain storage, bee 



yards. 



Meetings with homeowner groups on sanitation, bear-proof containers at Big Sky, bear-proof 



enclosure fence for garbage containment at Corwin Springs. 



Adoption of the South Gallatin County Ordinance to address sanitation in upper Gallatin 



Canyon. 



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