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GBOP's Bear Smart Program Get Bear Smart Certified! Join the many people in the North Cascades who are taking steps to become Bear Smart - adopting ways to minimize conflicts with black and grizzly bears around their homes and communities. Simply complete and mail a Bear Smart home checklist and we'll send you a free refrigerator magnet and window sticker! You can now download the Bear Smart home checklist online at http://www.bearinfo.org/BearSmartCertificationChecklist.pdf (92kb).
Bear Smart is all about trying to minimize the attractants that might draw black and grizzly bears into communities in search of food rewards. Berries, carrion, and plants are well known bear foods, but did you know that bears are also attracted to bird feeders, compost, and apple trees? Together, these items can create a powerful incentive for a bear to enter areas occupied by humans. This can lead to bears that become 'repeat offenders', causing damage to property and even becoming a threat to human safety. In many cases though, it is the bear that ends up dead. The well-known phrase "a fed bear is a dead bear" is true. The good news is that simple, inexpensive steps can be taken to make life better for humans and bears in habitat that supports both. GBOP's Bear Smart program has been designed to help promote those steps by first identifying where some of the problems lie.
Although GBOP's approach to Bear Smart is not exhaustive, it does provide a starting point for trying to assess places and ways in which human-bear conflicts are caused in and around communities of the North Cascades. Grizzly bears and black bears are very similar in their desire to locate and consume high calorie food items. Therefore, our Bear Smart activities do not differentiate between the two species. More about bears and Bear Smart. We are thrilled to be working with community members from the North Cascades on the development of this exciting project. For a map of our first focus areas click here. Click here for Bear Smart reports and links. Manufacturers of bear resistant garbage cans: Bear
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Thank you Thank you to Defenders of Wildlife and Minette Johnson for providing a grant to develop GBOP's Bear Smart materials.
Thank you to the following businesses for going the extra mile in support of GBOP's Bear Smart:
Glacier Creek Lodge: Glacier Creek Lodge is located at the gateway to the Mount Baker National Forest wonderland, between Glacier and Gallup Creeks. The sound of rushing water provides an enchanting background for the rustic setting of the rooms as well as the cabins. The accommodations are clean and comfortable, with the choice of either a cabin with a kitchen or a motel type room. Barbecues and picnic tables are available and use of the well kept grounds is encouraged. The main building has a hot-tub. The lodge is open year round. Website.
Mount Baker Lodging: Mount Baker Lodging offers private, self-catered, fully-equipped vacation home rentals and Mt. Baker area cabins, cottages, condos, chalets, and executive vacation home rentals in the villages of Glacier and Maple Falls, Washington, at the magnificent gateway to the Mount Baker Recreation Area. Website.
Mount Baker Rim Community Club: Mount Baker Rim Community Club. Website.
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County black bear with no shortage of bird feeders to choose from! If you need to report an incident:
Please notify your local State Patrol Office or the nearest ranger station. Please report all grizzly bear observations and field sign to: 1-888-WOLF-BEAR
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