BEAR DAY 2025!
Bear Day is on Saturday, April 12 from 9am-3pm at the Canmore Nordic Centre. To coincide with bears’ emergence from their winter dens, Alberta Parks and WildSmart are once again hosting Bear Day at Canmore Nordic Centre Provincial Park’s Day Lodge.
This event is a celebration and welcoming of bears back on the landscape for another year. It’s a great opportunity to learn more about the bears in our area and to refresh your bear safety knowledge and skills so you are prepared for the upcoming season.
Indoor and outdoor activities include bear spray demonstrations, bear safety talks, a bear trapping demonstration, bear awareness hikes (registration required), bear aversive conditioning and monitoring research presentations, kids’ bear storytimes, kids area with make your own bear scat activities, and bear-related booths and displays.
In attendance to chat with you about all things bears will be Alberta Parks Ecologists, Park Rangers and Interpretation staff, Conservation Officers, Fish and Wildlife Officers, Parks Canada Public Outreach, Town of Canmore, Volunteer Wildlife Ambassadors, Keep Wildlife Alive Ambassadors, Bear Monitoring and Aversive Conditioning Volunteers and Stoney Tribal Administration.
This is a FREE family-friendly event! Activities begin at 9:00 am and end at 3:00 pm. In the event of inclement weather, the majority of activities will take place indoors.
Time to Take down your bird feeder!
Bears will be emerging from their dens soon and we will all be sharing the valley bottoms for the next few months so there is an increased chance of encountering wildlife. Please help try to keep bears and other wildlife out of trouble by taking your bird feeders down and cleaning up the ground underneath! The Town of Canmore Community Standards Bylaw only allows bird feeders to be hung from December 1 to March 31. Click here for details.
Stay tuned for our first weekly bear report later in April…once the bears are out!
Please remember BEARS CAN BE ENCOUNTERED ANYWHERE, ANYTIME!
Report any sightings of a bear, cougar, wolf or any aggressive wildlife in Kananaskis Country or the Bow Valley to Kananaskis Dispatch at 403.591.7755
