Campers visiting Choteau Mountainview RV Campground now have a safer way to store food and other bear attractants thanks to a new bear-resistant food storage box installed Oct. 29, according to a news release from Teton Bear Smart.
Teton Bear Smart procured the box with funding from an America’s Ecosystem Resilience Initiative grant administered by Heart of the Rockies Initiative. Personnel from Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks and Teton Bear Smart worked together to complete the installation.
Campground owners Kim and Suzi Dieruf volunteered to make the storage box part of their campground’s infrastructure, providing an important safety resource for visitors, particularly bicyclists and tent campers who may lack secure food storage.
“We are so grateful to the Teton Bear Smart team for making this happen,” said Suzi Dieruf. “We have bikers and other campers that will benefit from this and the bear storage box will help keep everyone safe.”
Located along Montana’s Rocky Mountain Front, Choteau is part of a landscape where people and bears share habitat. Proper food storage is essential to preventing human-bear conflicts and keeping bears from becoming accustomed to human food.
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