Following extensive testing, they’re introducing some pretty clever, bear-resistant trash totes on the Flathead Reservation . . .
Bill Foust admits it took him a little while to figure out how – with his hands full, anyway – to open the lid on his trash cans.
Bears still haven’t mastered it.
And that’s a good thing, considering Foust and his wife Barb live along the front of the Mission Mountains, where bears and humans sometimes have their difficulties coexisting.
The Fousts, who haven’t been able to bear-proof trash cans on their own, have been testing two new specially made bear-resistant containers for the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Tribes.