Don t sleep in your cooking clothes and wash your hands and face before bedding down for the night. Learn to recognize bears and their behaviours. Colour is deceiving and a small grizzly resembles a black bear. Up to 160,000 black bears live in BC, and they are adaptable to most regions. Bears in the Area Consider all bears as potentially dangerous they are unpredictable.
Bears have excellent senses of smell and hearing.
A bear rearing back and shaking its head from side to side is trying to get a better look or scent. Bears attack on all fours. Make sure your presence is known Make noise and walk with the wind at your back so bears can identify you as a human. Shake stones in a pop can, wear bear bells , sing, clap or talk loudly. Avoid feeding areas where bears might be in the woods in spring eating roots, overturning rocks and logs for insects and larva.