"The future and hope of nuisance-bear management lies in educating the public. We've got to create peer pressure among rural subdivision residents to keep things cleaned up. We've got to get the cooperation of county commissioners, so that when they approve new housing developments in prime bear habitat, there are covenants requiring bear-proof garbage containers and responsible behavior by residents. And these covenants must be rigidly enforced. The root of the problem is that we're leaving food out to attract bears." - Retired bear researcher Tom Beck, from "Ghost Grizzlies" by David Petersen
"The most critical element of wildlife management in twenty-first century America will be modifying the behavior of the most pervasive species of all. Reducing conflicts between people and wild animals will require controls on human actions: where we build our homes, how we landscape our yards, the way we dispose of our trash and house our pets. People, especially those who live along the new frontier between civilization and wildland, must accept that they are participants in the natural world, not mere observers." - Author David Baron, from his book "The Beast in the Garden."
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