Community Resources

We are dedicated to providing the information and resources necessary to prevent conflicts with wildlife. This increases human safety and allows wildlife to move through the greater Ninemile-Sixmile area without becoming “food-conditioned” (i.e., expecting food from humans). Check out our many programs and informational links and do your part to keep our wildlife wild!

• How to Keep Bears Out of Your Yard
  
  
• Driving with Wildlife
  
  
• Bear Aware & Garbage Bin Loaner Program
  
  
• MT Fish Wildlife & Parks Electric Fencing Guide for Bears
  
  
• Living With Wildlife Resource Guides
  These guides are developed by the Living With Wildlife Foundation with the goal of informing the public and wildlife professionals about the many ways to reduce human-bear conflicts.  The series is updated regularly to reflect improvements in products and coexistence methods and are downloadable, free of cost, from the LWWF website.
  • Practical Electric Fencing Resource Guide: Controlling Predators  (2009)
  • Techniques and Refuse Management Options (2008)
  • Recreating in Bear, Wolf, and Mountain Lion Country (2009)
  • Be Bear Aware - Proper Use of Bear Spray (Video)
    
    
• Wildlife Friendly Fencing Guide
  Montana Department of Fish Wildlife and Parks produced this informative manual:
  Landowner’s Guide to Wildlife Friendly Fences: How to Build Fence with Wildlife in Mind
  
  
• Wildlife in the News
  Check out these links for stories on wildlife in and around our area:
  
  • An Excerpt from "Wolfer: A Memoir"
  • Bears and Lions in the News
    
    
• Links
  The Ninemile Wildlife Workgroup works with a lot of folks in order to meet our goals.  Please check out the great resources they provide:
  
  
• American Wildlands
• Bearsmart
• Center for Wildlife Information
• Defenders of Wildlife
• Defenders of Wildlife Habitat and Highways Campaign
  
• Five Valleys Land Trust
  
• Freedom to Roam
  
• Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee
  
• Living With Wildlife Foundation
  
• Lolo National Forest
  
• Missoula Bears  
  
• Missoula County Rural Initiatives
  
• Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks
  
• Road Watch in the Pass
  
• Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation
  
• The Montana Legacy Project
  
• The Nature Conservancy
  
• Transwild Alliance
  
• Trout Unlimited
  
• Western Governors' Wildlife Council (WGWC)
  
• Wildsmart
  
• Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative