As bear populations continue to rise in the greater Yellowstone region and in other habitat areas, bear managers are sharing information about what works—and what doesn’t—in their ongoing efforts to keep both bears and people safe.
In Alberta, Canada, those efforts include using specially trained dogs to haze bears, adapting old shipping containers for use as bear-proof storage sheds and even airdropping stockpiled roadkill to the high country as a spring food source for grizzlies.