The annual Bear Fair is coming up fast!
This year’s fair will be held Sunday, September 29, 2019 at 1 PM – 4 PM at the Doc Long Picnic Area in the Cibola national forest.
Bear Fair 2019!
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Los Alamos Bear Festival
Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative was represented at the Bear Festival on August 24. The event was great and well-attended! The event was hosted at the Pajarito Environmental Education Center. At the SMBC table, we discussed bear safety, hiking with predators, and how not to feed bears.
Vendors and face painters, along with other bear safety organizations were represented, and bear safety demonstrations were given by wildlife biologist Daryl Ratajczak.
Article and FB Post
Scientific American has this article about the pinon and it’s potential in the western US. A lot of the climate change impacts on nature are seen here before most places, although this article also suggests that the fluctuation in trees could be due to previous abundance.
In this post, a bear attempts to get into a trash can in Los Alamos County. A bear-resistant trash can stops her, and may well save her life!
2018 Bear Fair Video!
We all had a great time at the 2018 Bear Fair hosted at the Albuquerque Zoo. This video, made by Frank Michel, captures some of the events and people present. Thank you, Frank!
The beginning show a mother bear and her three cubs captured on trail cams in the Sandia Mountains. The mom and her first cub have black fur, while her second cub has cinnamon-colored fur, and the third has some blond in his fur. However, they are all Black Bears.
Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative at the Party in the Park!
The Party in the Park is an annual event hosted by the High Desert Residential Homeowner Association. This is the second year the SMBC has been there. We had a table with information packets, flyers for the 2018 Bear Fair, and of course, some bear scat! The scat is part of our dietary analysis of the bears in the Sandia Mountains, which science students at Sandia High School help us analyse!
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Oso Project
Dylan Frenzel with the Rio Grande Zoo, is doing the Oso Project as part of the science done by the Zoo and the Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative. Check it out here!
Rio Grande Zoo
Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative
The Sandia Mountain Bear Collaborative is made up of local volunteers, community groups, and local, state, and federal agencies. Our mission is to better understand our black bear population, their corridors and range in the Sandia Mountains, and to educate the public about coexisting with these and other animals in our area
