联盟萨利什部落和科特奈部落通过收获野生苹果减少熊冲突,促进灰熊共存,反对将其除名。 The Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes reduce bear conflicts by harvesting wild apples, promoting grizzly bear coexistence and opposing their delisting.

在蒙大拿的平头保留区,联合的萨利什部落和科特奈部落正在通过从野生和被遗弃的树木中收获多余的苹果来减少人类与熊的冲突,这是野生动物项目经理卡里·金杰里领导的季节性努力。 On Montana’s Flathead Reservation, the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes are reducing human-bear conflicts by harvesting excess apples from wild and abandoned trees, a seasonal effort led by wildlife program manager Kari Kingery. 家庭,包括Kingerys,收集水果压成酒在当地节日, 删除吸引熊进入住宅区的吸引. Families, including Kingery’s, gather fruit to press into cider at local festivals, removing attractants that draw bears into residential areas. 该倡议支持与灰熊共存,部落认为灰熊在文化和精神上具有重要意义,反对国家努力将他们从《濒危物种法》中除名,允许狩猎。 The initiative supports coexistence with grizzly bears, which the tribe views as culturally and spiritually significant, and opposes state efforts to delist them from the Endangered Species Act and allow hunting.