WHITEFISH - It’s that time of year when bears are hungry and out looking for food sources before the big hibernation comes this winter.

The City of Whitefish is reminding residents to properly dispose of garbage after a mother bear and her cubs have been feeding off overfilled garbage cans.

“Making sure your garbage can is properly latched, making sure it’s closed, it’s not overflowing with food attractants, that’s going to keep a bear from coming over, tipping it over, causing a mess for you and your neighbors and also learning a bad behavior,” said Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks spokesman Dillon Tabish.

Tabish said it’s time for everyone to do their part to help prevent bear-human conflicts. “As soon as a bear learns that it can go and get an easy food reward from your garbage can o

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