Bear Smart Durango

Bear Smart Durango is a non profit organization working to help people and bears coexist for the benefit of both.

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The 2025 Bear Smart Durango "Happenings" calendar is available for purchase! Calendars are $25 including shipping. The calendars are also available at Maria's Bookshop and Toh-Atin Gallery.

Order yours safely and securely online today!
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Maybe Durango needs a Fat Bear Week. Bears feeding on trash, apples and bird seed can get really big.

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Check out our new website!! We hope you love it. HUGE thanks to Eric & Lisa with Milomedia. https://t.co/0vxP0CuIKC

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Our next electric fencing project. A bear tried to get at chickens east of Durango.

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Lucky capture on one of our trail cameras north of Bayfield. Lucky because a bear had already "readjusted" two of the camera views.

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A residents video of a pretty funky color-phased Black Bear behind a home outside of Bayfield.

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A study by Utah State University in collaboration with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks found an 87.8% reduction in bears being within 300 yards of farmsteads and a 94.1% reduction in a bears time spent on a farmstead. https://t.co/17cTRs32Tr

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If your bear-resistant trash container is damaged so as to no longer be bear-resistant, please contact your waste hauler for repairs or a replacement. Contact info at https://t.co/9bUcEzJeXV

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118 bear-resistant trash cans were delivered to the Southern Ute Indian Tribe yesterday for distribution to tribal residents, part of the grant we wrote in 2023 on behalf of the local Bear Working Group for funding from CPW's Human-Bear Conflict Reduction community grant program.

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The LPC Bear Hotline at (970) 247-BEAR (2327) allows residents to report bear activity, trash accessed by bears, obtain bear deterrents, scare devices and bear-resistant trash containers, list or find excess fruit via the Good Food Collective, and more!

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Recent bear scat consisting of grasses and vegetation, juniper berries and last years acorns on a hiking trail east of Durango. Photos by our good friend, Karen Hickerson. Learn more about bear sign and recreating in bear country at https://t.co/b0Y9EPcCaW

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Wonderful PBS program on the world’s most famous grizzly bear, Grizzly 399. It's hard not falling in love with this amazing bear. (53:33)
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Recent resident-submitted photo of trash accessed by a bear near Vallecito. Info on how to report incidents of trash accessed by bears so it can be addressed can be found here: https://t.co/1STsLKggUW

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Helping people, bees and bears. Win, Win, Win!

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Electric fence install yesterday west of Durango to protect beehives from bears. 8’ x 18’ with a solar energizer.

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Multiple trash cans accessed by a bear in a subdivision west of Durango last week. Residents should report incidents of bear-strewn trash to the LPC Bear Hotline at 970-247-BEAR. Video courtesy of Heather Distad.

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Electric fence install east of Bayfield last week for protecting beehives.

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Excellent discussion on bear encounters and ways to be safe in bear country with our good friend and expert bear biologist Daryl Ratajczak. Sit back in a comfortable chair, with a cup of tea or whiskey, and enjoy. https://t.co/jO6n2PuFRQ

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Keep building these, please! They save wildlife... and people.
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