Article: Bear-proof garbage cans to be tested in West Milford

RICHARD COWEN, STAFF WRITER
The Record (Bergen County, NJ)
06-18-2005

Bear-proof garbage cans to be tested in West Milford
By RICHARD COWEN, STAFF WRITER
Date: 06-18-2005, Saturday
Section: NEWS
Edtion: All Editions

The state is seeing if it can put a lid on the problem of hungry bears invading neighborhoods by distributing bear-proof garbage cans for free.

And it has chosen West Milford as its testing ground, because some of the closest encounters between black bears and people have occurred in the mountainous Highlands community.

State Environmental Commissioner Bradley M. Campbell announced Friday that West Milford will receive a $200,000 Clean Communities grant from the state to purchase the ...

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