Posted a few days to Facebook by Justine Vallieres, Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks Bear Manager, Region 1 . . .
Hey everyone, sorry it’s taken me so long to reach out, but I wanted to apologize for not being at the interlocal meeting as I had some things come up that week. I also was out of the state recently for a bit so I am finally getting around to reaching out.
I am currently research and augmentation trapping. I have traps up the Deadhorse and Coal drainage, and I am also trapping up Hay Creek. The road that connects Hay to Red Meadow is currently closed for research and augmentation trapping. The roads are signed, but wanted to give a heads up. Sorry for any inconvenience this may cause!
As far as updates go for the interlocal meeting…we really did not have any conflicts up the North Fork this spring. It was just the normal reports of bears eating grass in yards. We know of at least one female with two yearlings and one female with three yearlings, and lots of individuals (to state the obvious), and also have one collared female for research up there.
There were no relocations of conflict bears up there this spring until last week. On July 25 there was an adult female relocated up whale Creek while I was away. She was caught on the east front near a cattle depredation, and was not the target bear. She is collared and has not been around homes.
That’s all I got for now! Thank you!