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Dumped crab apples a bear attractant
Someone has dumped windfall crab apples along 4th Avenue A, just above the boat launch in Fernie, reports WildSafeBC Elk Valley.
“This happens every year where people feed bears and use easily accessible areas or popular back country recreational areas as a dumping ground. We encourage people not to feed bears or attract them to our neighbourhoods and recreational areas. How about trying to find a farmer and sharing this bounty or taking unwanted fruit directly to the transfer station and disposing of it responsibly,” WildSafeBC commented online.
“Owning a fruit tree in bear country is a big responsibility! Fruit needs to be picked daily as it ripens and not allowed to accumulate on the ground is important. Pruning your fruit tree will result in a better and more manageable quality of fruit. Other options are removing the fruiting tree and replacing it with a native non-fruit bearing tree.”
Do you need help with your apples? There are resources.
Contact Wildsight Fernie Branch Facebook: Fernie Apple Capture tree sharing; Available to lend: fruit picking and tree pruning equipment, apple presses, dehydrators, sauce makers, etc. Call: 1-250-423-3322.
If you are unable to manage your fruit tree due to disability, illness, you are elderly and need assistance picking the fruit, contact: Rachel Dortman 1-250-423-8665, Facebook: Elk Valley Homesteading.
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