Grizzly Bear Management

Grizzly bear. Experts share how they are working to manage grizzly bears in Idaho and give advice should human interaction occur. David Sparks, Idaho AG today with Austin Terrell, who's a terrestrial species project manager for Montana. Speaker2: They do carcass removal programs where they hire somebody to drive a dump truck or a pick up with the trailer to go out to a producer's ranch or their property when they have cattle or horses or sheep. When something dies, typically the producer would take that carcass out and put it in the back 40 of their property. But they're starting to see that those boneyards are attracting grizzly bears in. And then once they're done consuming those carcasses, they're now moving on to the live animals or creating conflicts at the producer's house. And it's just increasing the likelihood of a human bear conflict on private property. And so the thought was that if we could work to get those carcasses off the landscape, it would take one of those attractants off that landscape to deter the opportunity for grizzly bears to get in trouble with humans. Speaker1: Here's Jeremy Garfield, who's a conservation officer with Idaho Fish and Game. So if there's. Speaker3: A conflict between a human and another animal that is maybe doing some predation or something along that lines, we get involved. And then the Department of AG Wildlife Services gets involved. Speaker2: Our goal is to recover threatened and listed species for the Endangered Species Act while maintaining a viable economy in the state of Idaho. So we try and work with livestock producers, the timber industry, to recover these species, but at the same point not have a negative impact on those industries that drive our economy in the state of Idaho. Speaker1: A great program.