Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks highlights electric fencing to prevent human-bear conflicts

Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks highlights electric fencing to prevent human-bear conflicts

Montana Fish, Wildlife, and Parks (FWP) is reminding landowners about the use of electric fencing to prevent human-bear conflicts.In a social media post this week, the agency cited an example from 2023, when grizzly bears and black bears were increasingly using a generator shed west of Choteau and Augusta as a "rub post."FWP explained: The areas FWP Bear Specialist worked with the property manager to cost-share the electric fence, which we insta…