Letter to the editor: Let’s be helpful to wildlife as drought causes stress

Letter to the editor: Let’s be helpful to wildlife as drought causes stress

Wildlife needs our extra consideration this summer. I have been noticing lots of wildlife (birds, bears, deer, coyote etc) sticking closer in to our neighborhoods this spring already. This is probably because most of our neighborhoods are near the primo water and food resources. I have also noticed plants in the mountains, that are normally very impervious to dry conditions (like yarrow, arrow leaf balsam root flower, fireweed and lupine) are dr…