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Learn to Safely Enjoy the Alaskan Wilderness!

This course meets the requirements of most corporate safety guidelines requiring employees and field staff to have a safety certification prior to remote work in Alaska. Contact us if you have questions about certification for your staff!

An engaging multi-media presentation is brought to you by knowledgeable instructors who have spent a lifetime in the backcountry gaining personal experience from (literally) hundreds of positive AND negative bear encounters. We bring you this class not as a book-based curriculum but from experience. We want nothing more than for you to enjoy your work season or next adventure SAFELY, and CONFIDENTLY!

Key topics:

• A dynamic, interactive presentation given by a knowledgeable Alaskan offers insight into specific bear biology, identification and understanding of body language, behavior, and seasonal / location aspects
• An in-depth video presentation introduces situational awareness, do’s and don’ts, and highlights ways we can have safe encounters without conditioning bear behavior or jeopardizing future encounters
• This course identifies the advantages and disadvantages of pepper spray and focuses on its successful field use through informative, hands-on training
• State laws regarding pepper spray and firearm bear defense are outlined, reporting procedures are provided, and questions specific to your context are answered
• Included with course: training packet, field identification tools, inert pepper spray canister for live fire practice, certificate of completion
• This course is independently offered for Brown / Grizzly / Black Bear or for Polar Bear (2 separate subjects) Please indicate which training is needed / desired
• This training meets the requirements of many state and local entities – please check with your employer for certification parameters
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Take Bear Aware as a standalone course, or combine it with our popular Firearms For Bear Defense course