WILDSMART Essential Resources
Welcome to WildSmart’s essential resources. If you’re looking for quick links such as trail warnings, bear reports, and more, you’ve come to the right place.
Avoid & Handle Encounters
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Want to learn more about the WildSmart organizations and how you can get involved? We have a number of trainings, resources, and in-community activations we’d love to share with you.
Book a wildsmart training
Our wildlife awareness talks teach audiences about local wildlife, what we know about them, and how we can use that information to avoid potential conflicts at home, in town, and on the trail (and how to handle those encounters if they do occur). Our bear spray training sessions give participants the chance to feel comfortable carrying and deploying bear spray before they find themselves in a high-pressure situation. WildSmart often delivers wildlife awareness talks and bear spray training together.
Free online course: how to be wildsmart
How to Be WildSmart is a fun, interactive course for residents, visitors, and frontline staff in the Bow Valley! Learn how to safely coexist with wildlife, manage attractants at home and on the trails, avoid and handle encounters, use bear spray and more - all in under an hour.
Interested in improving human-wildlife coexistence in your area? The following resources might be helpful:
The IGBC Bear Smart Community framework is useful for communities that are interested in establishing their own Bear Smart Committees, completing a Bear Smart Community Assessment, and/or create a Bear Smart Community Plan.
The B.C. Bear Smart Community Program is an approach that encourages communities, businesses and individuals to work together. The goal is to address the root causes of human/bear conflicts, thereby reducing the risks to human safety and private property, as well as the number of bears that have to be destroyed each year.