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Bear Awareness Online
This digital course imparts crucial knowledge for those who may find themselves in areas inhabited by bears, whether for work, hunting, camping or traveling.
The Bear Awareness Online course is designed to equip you with the knowledge necessary to navigate bear country safely. Besides understanding the general traits and behaviors of bears, the course will teach you how to identify and respond to both defensive and non-defensive bear encounters, ensuring your safe return home.
- Differences between grizzly and black bears
- General characteristics
- Bear behaviour and body language
- Signs of agitation
- Distribution of bear populations
- Breeding
- Hibernation
- Food sources
- Hunting, camping, and travelling safely in bear country
- How to store food in a campsite
- Avoiding a bear encounter
- Recognizing and reacting to defensive and non-defensive attacks
- When and how to play dead
- Using and handling bear spray
- Bear bangers
The course's duration is approximately 60 minutes
Testing incorporated in this Bear Awareness Online course is aimed to solidify the knowledge dispensed. A minimum score of 80% is required to obtain a certificate of completion. If the pass mark is not attained, participants have the opportunity to retake the course twice.
Upon successful completion of the Bear Awareness Online course, a certificate of completion will be downloadable and printable.
Course Details
Course Length
This course will take roughly 45 minutes
Passing Mark
To pass this training course, you need to score 80% or higher on the quiz
Certificate
Upon the successful completion of this course a certificate with your name will be stored on your profile and available to print
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