WILDLIFE -- A summer heat wave and poor huckleberry crop is causing trouble for bears in the region by forcing the bruins to lower elevations where they run into conflicts with people.

Heads up:  A grizzly has been seen near Priest Lake.  Keep a clean camp and a garbage free cabin area.

The problem has been more than apparent farther norther in Canada.

This year, 16 black bears, a wolverine, several wolves, and countless elk and deer have been killed on the highways and railways in Banff, Yoho and Kootenay national parks.

The human-caused animal death toll keeps rising — due, experts say, to a late spring and hot summer that has kept bears in the valley bottoms, and also to increased traffic speeding through the park.

Read more in this Calgary Herald story.