What You Can Do

• Put garbage out on the morning of garbage day, and not the night before
• Do not leave pet food outdoors
• Thoroughly clean outdoor grills after use
• Fill bird feeders only through the winter months
• Do not put meat, fish or sweet food (including fruit) in your composter
• Keep meat scraps in the freezer until garbage pick-up day
• Pick all ripe fruit off trees, and remove vegetables and fallen fruit from the ground
• Use electric fencing to protect valuable trees, orchards, vegetable and berry patches

Ontario Bear
Density Map

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Fact Sheets

• What To Do If You Encounter a Bear
• How to Recognize a Potentially Dangerous Encounter
• What Campers Can Do
• What Cottagers Can Do
• Are Black Bears Exhibiting Increased Boldness?
• Ontario's Black Bear Population
• What You Can Do
• What You Should Know About Black Bears
• Bears in your schoolyard. What you can do.
• What Your Community Can Do
• What Farmers Can Do
• What Your Food Business Can Do
• Bears Travel a Long Way

Some of the above fact sheets are also available in Cree and Ojibway.

Download: Ontario's Bear Wise Program 2004: Reporting progress, results and success (PDF Size: 472 K)

Bear Wise Articles

• Bear Biology - Up close and personal with Ontario's black bears
• Keeping Property Clean - The public's help is needed to keep bears where they belong
• Farmer's role in keeping bears at bay - Can farmers and bears coexist in peace?

 Technical Notes

• Dispatching Problem Bears
• Bees, Bears and Beekeepers: What You Need to Know About the Law and Protection of Property
• Best Practices for Becoming a Bear Wise Community
• Guidelines for the Installation of Electric Fence for Excluding Black Bears
• Guidelines for the Installation of Temporary Electric Fencing for Black Bears

Video


Bear Wise videos featured on the Town & Country Ontario television show.

Municipal Support

• Toolkit
• Articles
• Radio Ad Scripts
• Small Space Black & White Ads
• Visual Identity Artwork
• Technical Drawings - Bear Traps