Making human use predictable and preventing bears from getting human food – including fish from anglers – should be top priorities along the Chilkoot River corridor, a National Park Service biologist told a crowd at last week’s second annual Celebration of Bears festival.
Tania Lewis, a wildlife biologist at Glacier Bay National Park, said to address bear conflicts at the park’s Bartlett River area, the agency required fishermen to keep food, including caught fish, within…