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Posted on 01/10/07

Kootenay officers must shoot foraging bruins

Special to The Globe and Mail

Conservation officers in the Kootenays are being forced to shoot problem black bears on sight because a severe drought has wiped out the animals' natural food supply, drawing them to local communities to forage on garbage and backyard fruit trees.

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