TannersvilleNY.com

By Jim Planck
Hudson-Catskill Newspapers
Published: Thursday, April 22, 2010 6:16 AM EDT

HUNTER — NYS Department of Environmental Conservation officials were at the Village of Hunter Board meeting Monday night to present an overview of the whys and wherefores of bear problems in the Catskills, with a central message — no food equals no bears.

On hand were Lt. K. J. Beiter, Environmental Conservation Officer Sean Dewey, Regional Wildlife Manager Jerry Fraine, Wildlife Biologist Larry Bifaro, and Wildlife Technician Joshua Choquette, which — if it seems a sizable contingent — can be offset with one simple fact, which Bifaro presented during his talk and which also showed up clearly in the concentration of reported bear incident red dots on his power point map — the Town of Hunter — specifically Route 23A and County Route 16 to Platte Clove — is, hands down, bear problem central in the entire nine-county region that they work out of.

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