Be Bear Smart Slideshow at Vallecito Lake

 

Bear Smart Presentation at Vallecito Lake

Bear Smart Durango Director Bryan Peterson will give a slideshow presentation titled, “Talking Trash: Human-Bear Conflict in the Durango Area,” on Tuesday, August 7, from 6:00 to 7:30 p.m. at Schank House, 17460 CR 501 at Vallecito Lake.

Donations appreciated. For more information contact Lisa Bourque at (970) 884-7253 or sleddingwithyukon@yahoo.com. Photo courtesy: Cathy Wilkening


Tuesday, August 7
6:00 - 6:30 PM: Social (Food and beverage will be available)
6:30 - 7:30 PM: (Slideshow)
Schank House

Spring Bear Wake-Up Social: May 10

Bear Smart Durango presents the First Annual Spring Bear Wake-Up Social, a fun and educational community event to raise awareness as black bears emerge from winter dens to begin a bear season anew with an emphasis on preventing human-bear interactions and conflict.

Thursday, May 10
4 to 8PM
Durango Discovery Museum

4 PM:
• Kids' activities with Durango Nature Studies (including a gluten-free Bear Scat Eating Contest - They're actually quite yummy!) Bear-related costumes are encouraged!
• Live music with Darcy Cole
• Electric fencing, bear-resistant containers and bear spray demonstrations 
• Food and beverages will be available

6 PM:
Keynote speaker Laura Pritchett, author of “Great Colorado Bear Stories,” gives a slideshow talk in the Powerhouse Theater

6:45 PM:
An open mic for your bear stories - and fabulous door prizes!

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Parking is very limited, so park nearby and walk to the event either via the 12th Street crossing at Camino del Rio or the Animas River Trail. Or, ride your bikes!

A BIG BEAR HUG TO ALL! Special thanks to our sponsors: Red Willow Production Company, The Durango Herald and Twin Buttes! Thanks also to Darcy Cole, Manna Soup Kitchen, Backcountry Experience, Colorado Parks & Wildlife Museum, Durango Discovery Museum, Agritek Fence, Fresh Off the Press, Durango Nature Studies, Maria's Bookshop, Frosty Pines, Durango Business Improvement District, Colorado Parks & Wildlife, City of Durango, WCA Transit Waste and Phoenix Recycling.

 Ad by Paul Ambrose, Desert Dolphin.

"bear paws" fundraiser at Kroegers

Shop at Kroegers Ace Hardware at Town Plaza and buy a $1 or $5 "Bear Paw" to support Bear Smart Durango! Customers (county residents only) buying a $5 paw are entered in a drawing to win a FREE bear-resistant residential trash container, courtesy of the great folks at Phoenix Recycling! Drawing to be held soon - so don't miss out! Photo from 2010.

2011 elementary school classroom program

Bear Smart Durango has contracted Katie Maloney to serve as Educational Program Coordinator for “I’m a Bear Smart Kid!” elementary school classroom programs, starting this fall school season.

This free, educational, hands-on program on bear ecology and being Bear Smart is available to area 3rd thru 5th grade classrooms.

Katie has worked in environmental education throughout Colorado, for organizations such as Durango Nature Studies and the Environmental Learning Center in Fort Collins, CO.

For more information or to schedule a 50-minute classroom presentation:

Katie Maloney

Bear Smart Durango

Educational Program Coordinator

970-779-0277

bearsmart.education@gmail.com

meet here for Bear Hike on TH. July 7

Bear Hike participants are asked to meet TH, July 7 at 5:45PM at the gravel parking lot entrance of Perins Peak SWA at the intersection of Lightner Creek Rd and Dry Fork Rd (orange marker on map). Look for the Bear Smart truck and a black bear plywood cutout.