The Chilkat Valley Historical Society (CVHS) has awarded $2,100 in grants to five applicants so far in an effort to promote electric fence use in the valley including to a small, fruit-tree orchard owner and a grower developing a multi-acre farm.
The Rasmuson Foundation provided $12,000 in “fencing grants’’ to the CVHS to help curb human-bear conflicts after last year’s record brown bear mortality when 30 bears were killed by police and residents outside the…