Human-Wildlife Coexistence: How Bear Spray Was Developed At University Of Montana 40 Years Ago

Before bear spray, encounters between people and bears often ended in bullets. That changed when graduate student Carrie Hunt developed the life-saving deterrent at the University of Montana in the 1980s.

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