by Daniel Duric, for the Newport Dispatch
NEWPORT — The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department is calling on residents to take immediate actions to prevent bear conflicts as the animals have begun emerging from their dens earlier than usual this spring.
Jaclyn Comeau, the department’s bear biologist, emphasized the importance of proactive measures such as removing birdfeeders and securing trash to avoid attracting bears to residential areas.
“Bear incidents have been increasing over the past few years due to a combination of factors including a robust black bear population and shorter winters,” Comeau said. Bears are reportedly waking from hibernation as much as two weeks earlier than what has been typical, prompting an earlier start to the bear-aware season.
The department advises Vermonters to take several steps to coexist safely with bears: taking down birdfeeders, using bear-resistant containers for garbage and compost, employing electric fences to protect livestock such as chickens and honeybees, and feeding pets indoors. Additionally, residents are encouraged to request bear-resistant dumpsters from waste management services.
Human-bear conflicts are often exacerbated by bears associating human environments with easy food sources, a behavior passed down through generations.
“Preventing bears from accessing human-related foods is crucial for the safety of both bears and people,” Comeau stated.
The Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department also requests that any bear activity related to food, such as raiding birdfeeders or garbage, be reported via their Living with Black Bears web page. These reports help wildlife officials track bear behavior and intervene before conflicts escalate.
Comeau warns, “Intentionally feeding bears is harmful to the animals, dangerous for people, and illegal. It’s vital that residents remove food attractants and report any bear problems promptly.”
Categories: Environment, Outdoors
The department, in this case might want to support a ban on aerosol spraying by planes, which is sometimes referred to a chemtrails, however, it is not the topic of a conspiracy, rather some planes are directed overhead to spray material into the atmosphere to regulate and modify the weather, they use nano particulate material that is heavy metals by nature, and they also alter the natural weather as we know it. Most importantly, they create cloud cover that results in two important changes: the cloud cover does not allow heat to escape at night, thereby heating up the land more, and also more rainfall, and we have seen the flooding as a result. Like many things this experimental approach to weather modification in the name of climate control has brought about the very conditions it seeks to stop and as well caused even greater damage. That is why Tennessee has passed a ban on it and I am behind a ban here as well. More information can be gleaned at geoengineeringwatch.org and elsewhere. A contraption known as HAARP is also useful to research. My website describes the Agenda for a Living Earth at http://www.emilypeyton.com
Let’s see ” Don’t Feed The Bears “…………………but then again we do have a state packed full of liberals, you can’t fix stupid !!!
i have a no trespassing sign that says/// no bears allowed/// works for me/// i
have hunted in vermont for over fifty years and every bear i saw ran away from me/// stay away from the mother and cubs///
Good advice, myday44yahoocom…..I’ve done much the same in my dozen or so incidents with bear over the decades & they have each run off as well – one with a big bag o’ garbage in her mouth though. Seems like dealing with wildlife respectfully & cautiously ought to be pretty obvious to everyone, but then again, a whole bunch of clueless folks voted for Joe Biden three years ago, so…….there’s that.
So, should I be petrified, F & W? I guess despite all my own many, many years on this here God’s green earth it never occurs to some that they have to share the planet with millions of other species. The good news is that since humans are by far the most predatory, violent, often unpredictable and dangerous – I might just be inclined to somehow survive another year despite all those bears and big, bad coyotes. Again.
Well a duo of pairs (likely mom and previous year’s cub) took turns coming my yard every day two years ago. This despite the fact that A) I don’t have any trash outside. B) I don’t have a greasy gas grill. C) I don’t feed the birds. So why did they keep coming? Perhaps it was the State’s new boneheaded composting law. See, living close to the dump, apparently after the raiding the mandatory compost bin that people filled on Saturday (scheduled for pick up on the following Wednesday) they thought drop into my place and see what offerings I might have, being just across the brook from the river and all. Finding nothing didn’t matter to them, they just continued to poke around at anything and everything. So finally rubber shotgun pellets convinced them that my place was a drive thru fast food joint. Was I torturing them? No. Was I afraid of them? No. I just didn’t want them hanging out in my yard, they got the message pretty quickly.
Side note: Full name used, even before the 2024 requirement which was optional prior to that…for those who seem inordinately hung about this. Yet still one has accused me of using an alias…I’m in the book.
Was NOT a drive thru fast food joint.
Duo of bears, “pairs”.