Garbage bears
Photo: The Associated Press
In this Friday, May 8, 2009 picture, Alaska Fish and Game biologists Jessy Coltrane, right, and Rick Sinnott, area biologists overseeing the bear problem in Anchorage, talk about what people can do to keep bears away the during the Alaska Zoo's Bear Aware? Know Before You Go!" educational campaign in Anchorage, Alaska. Anchorage has a reputation for being bear tolerant but after three maulings last summer - including a 15-year-old girl who nearly bled to death when attacked by a grizzly in a city park - a chorus of outrage is building.
