Summer tips: Save your chickens, stop feeding bears

A chicken eats from a hanging feeder inside Sarah Dolan’s chicken run in the Mendenhall Valley on Saturday. (Photo by Quinton Chandler/KTOO)
If a bear cornered Sarah Dolan’s chickens inside her chicken run, they would be sitting ducks.
Six birds are strolling aimlessly around the run surrounded by a mesh fencing called hardware cloth. It looks like chicken wire, but Dolan says it’s more solid.
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