To feed Wildlife Or not to feed wild life

First bear sighting of the year
You see that black spot between the two trees? Well that is a bear that was in a neighbors field Sunday night.
I'm almost sure that Saturday morning there was one that was so close to our place that it spooked the horses causing them to go through the fence and run down the road to a neighbors field. Now this one is just a small one and according to what I've heard one of the people in the neighborhood has bear bait on his land. He is said to have commented  that he had his trail camera set up near the bait and has gotten pictures of 16 different bear. In my book that is to many bear for our neighborhood. We are only about three mile out of town and there are allot of dwellings in this area. 
I enjoy wildlife just as much as everyone else but, I really don't think they should be feed in that way in an area that has as many people as we have. If you are going to bait something like bear it should be done in a remote area of forest far away from populous areas. 
There has been a bear population boom around here for the last few years. It is making it very unsafe for everyone. This year the field next to our house has corn planted in it. A couple of years ago there was corn planted in a field behind that one and I took pictures of the damage that was caused back there. I'm very concerned that the same thing will happen to this field only it will next to the house. 
We are considering putting up a more solid fence or at least something that the horses can not go through so easily when they are spooked. For now at night they will put in a small pen that is made of metal gates for now.

In other wild life news last Friday the oldest one was woken up by a tapping on her window, her bedroom is in the basement. When she finally looked out she came face to face with a tom turkey. As you can imaging she was not expecting to see that. There were three toms walking around the back yard. And no we are not feeding them. I think they are just attracted to my turkey's.
I guess you can say they real peeping toms.

Because of the bear problem I will not be putting up an bird feeders. Most of the other neighbors are not putting up or using theirs either.

So if you feeding wildlife be warned of what could happen!

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