According to Ellie Archer, director of community outreach with the Get Bear Smart Society, being bear smart requires sensitivity to wildlife and taking responsibility for one’s actions. Here are some practical tips on how people can become bear smart in their own ways.

• Secure your garbage.
• Clean up all animal attractants in your backyard such as human food scraps.
• Ellie Archer spoke to residents about living safely with black bears at a Port Moody Bear Essentials talk last April 13.

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