Wyoming Game and Fish has had to move another grizzly bear in northwestern Wyoming. After consultation with the United States Fish and Wildlife Service, Game and Fish captured and relocated a sub-adult male grizzly bear on August 7th for obtaining grain on private lands northeast of Jackson.
In cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and U.S. Forest Service, the bear was relocated to the Boone Creek drainage approximately 30 miles northwest of Moran. The attractant has since been secured. Grizzly bear relocation is a management tool afforded to large carnivore biologists to minimize conflicts between humans and grizzly bears and is critical to the management of the population.
Game and Fish continues to stress the importance of the public’s responsibility in bear management and the importance of keeping all attractants, including food items, garbage, horse feed, bird seed, and so forth, unavailable to bears. Reducing attractants available to bears, they point out, reduces the chances for human-bear conflicts.
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