The Mountain Communities are in a public education war to get people visiting here, or newly relocated here, or longtimers stubbornly resisting the facts, to stop feeding wildlife. It creates habituated bears that lose their fear of people—and then their lives. You’ve seen the bumper sticker: “A Fed Bear Is a Dead Bear.” Habituated bears are captured and killed by…(please see below to view full stories and photographs)

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Above: David Galloway was eager to say, “This is not a telephoto lens.” This cinnamon black bear “is just three feet away from me, nose to nose, just a pane of glass between us.”

Above: You’ve heard of hog heaven? Unsecured trash around homes creates a Club Med for bears. Now this one may be killed.

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This is part of the June 30, 2017 online edition of The Mountain Enterprise.

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