How ‘bout these apples?
Fruit in the Rattlesnake
Pickers in the Rattlesnake race to beat bears to apples
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Elissa Schott shakes apples out of a tree on Rattlesnake Drive on Thursday as part of a program to remove the bear-attracting fruit before the bruins find it. With bears being seen more frequently in the Rattlesnake and other areas on the fringes of town, property owners are being urged to remove fruit from trees before bears find it and become a problem.
A deer watches with great interest as Schott removes apples from a tree in the Rattlesnake on Thursday.
The McIntosh apples Schott was picking off one tree Thursday were unusually small, but would still be irresistible to bears trying to put on fat for the winter.
DENVER (AP) — When a helicopter circled her quiet suburban cul-de-sac early Friday, Carol Rose didn't think it was a manhunt or an air ambulan…
Hiking trails in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area north of Missoula have reopened to the public after bear activity there has dropped.
The vote, yes or no, to kill bears that are in your fruit trees and garbage cans is horrible as to how many people want them killed.
Just as an almost unprecedented number of black bears have flooded the valleys of western Montana after food sources played out higher up, so …
Selected side trails in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area on both sides of the creek are expected to remain off limits until black bear…
U.S. Forest Service officials have closed some areas and parts of trails in the Rattlesnake National Recreation Area, including the the popula…
BILLINGS - An aggressive black bear that was breaking into homes in the Emerald Hills area was euthanized by Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks …
KALISPELL – Western Montana’s mounting problem with hungry black bears veered into an unfortunate consequence for one of the animals this week.
A wildlife expert said black bear sightings in western Montana "blew up" Monday and Tuesday as early ripening apples lured them to populated areas.
