Several apple presses were available to those who attended the Bears and Cider even recently at Salish Kootenai College in Pablo. The event aimed to help reduce human-bear conflicts by harvesting fruit that's an attraction for bears. (Carolyn Hidy/Lake County Leader)
September 28, 2021
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Cider pressing, gleaning event helps bears and people
The Mission Valley Fruit Gleaning Program is a new community wide effort to help reduce human-bear conflicts, begun this year by wildlife biologists with the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes and their partners at the nonprofit People and Carnivores.