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The Challenge of Getting Neighbors to Stop Attracting Bears University of Montana Assistant Professor Alex Metcalf with the Human Dimensions Lab recently began looking at why bears and other wildlife returned again and again to certain neighborhoods for food. I live in the Miller Creek area and one of my neighbors insisted on leaving food out for the deer that have made a home in my yard. I reminded him that it is illegal to feed wild animals that might turn our neighborhood into a game trail, and his reaction was ‘what, really?’ Metcalf has been studying the communication, or lack thereo...

Usually, vultures feed on animals that are already dead. But black vultures can be different. Author: Sarah Jones Updated: 8:20 PM EDT May 4, 2021 MILTON, Indiana — Vultures primarily feed on dead animals. In his 57 years as a farmer, Rollin Bach said he had never heard of a vulture killing anything. But Black Vultures are different.   "Black vultures, from time to time, they will get aggressive and will take livestock, usually newborn animals. But we're really trying to understand what is the reality of that. There's a lot of anecdotal evidence, but if we c...

Grizzly bear in northwestern Montana. | Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks via AP A flurry of bills has recently been introduced to Montana’s state legislature that reduces restrictions on the killing of grizzly bears and wolves — two predators which have historically struggled to survive in the state. One such bill is SB 98, put forward by Republican Sen. Bruce Gillespie, which would expand the state law allowance for killing grizzly bears. Currently, Montanans can kill grizzly bears if they are caught in the act of killing their livestock, according to CBS News. But the new bill — whi...