People and Carnivores PROJECT BRIEF

Multiple regions in Montana are experiencing rapid development. West of Glacier National Park, Montana’s Flathead Valley is one of the nation’s fastest-growing regions. As new houses and roads sprout forth, remaining habitat needs protection while residents and visitors both new and old need to be ready to coexist with a grizzly bear population that is also growing. We partner with People and Carnivores to this end. As the small coexistence-minded organization recently expanded north to the Mission and Flathead valleys, we supported their initiative to supply electric fencing to both homeowners and agricultural producers. 

In 2022 we were back with them in their original stomping grounds near Yellowstone. Having long worked in the region, People and Carnivores brought their conflict prevention resources to the key north-south connectivity corridor of the Tobacco Root Mountains. There, we supported the implementation of a new bear-resistant garbage container program for the community of Pony.