By Bruce Ryan
Dear Editor:
We live with the bears; the bears live with us. However, our garbage is not good for the bears or the raccoons either. We do not want to encourage them in this predation. And bears are not good company on evening or early morning dog walking.
People who put their garbage out before pick-up day then most often clean up their own driveways if those critters have dumped it.
But what about the places where there is no one home or it is a vacationer, a renter? Who do you ask to pick up dumped trash?
Here’s an idea: require bear-proof cans for the short term rentals and others who set out garbage cans but are not going to be onsite after that. It is not realistic to think the neighbor or the renter will do that. Maybe sometimes but not as a matter of course. So could bear-proof cans be part of the County requirements of STRs? What do you think?
Bruce Ryan,
Sandy River Lane