Bear Smart

At the Bear Working Group Forum on Wednesday, participants decided an important step in decreasing bear deaths is changing how we talk about human-bear contacts, pointing to the way Southern Ute...

Bears are fond of bird feeders, and bird feeders can create nuisance bears. Sometimes, nuisance bears end up dead. That’s the line of thinking that led to a new program cooked up by Bear Smart...

A recent photo suggests a bear waddled onto a Pagosa Springs resident’s property and pillaged its trash can. Bryan Peterson, of Bear Smart Durango, said he saw the photograph on Facebook. “It...

A grant to Bear Smart Durango has been invested in bear-resistant garbage cans that will rotate among Durango West I residents who need a can until they can get their own. Bryan Peterson, who...

A group of about 15 adults and children met at the Durango Nature Center on Saturday to participate in a “Living with Bears” workshop presented by Rob Else, program coordinator for DNC. In...

One of my favorite takeaways from a bear conference last year in Missoula, Mont., was a photo with this caption: “Don’t let your chickens kill a bear!” The picture was part of a presentation about...

The first of 900 bear-proof trash cans were distributed in Durango last week.“The neighborhoods to receive the cans were selected because they’re the most vulnerable,” Mary Beth Miles, the city’s...

As black bears begin their search for the 20,000 calories a day they need to see them through the winter, they may be seen more frequently than usual in urban areas.A few preventive measures will...