Bear Aware event and bear spray practice

11 a.m. - 12 p.m., Saturday, May 17, 2025
Location
210 Blackwell St # 1, Ione, WA 99139
In person, hybrid, virtual
In-person
Free/Fee
Free
Wheelchair accessible
Yes
On public transit route
Unknown

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It's Bear Aware week at the Pend Oreille County Library District!  Join the District and WDFW biologists for one of these free events to learn all about bear biology, how to avoid negative interactions with bears, and practice deploying bear spray safely. Free bear spray canisters are available for participants while supplies last.

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A Bear Aware poster showing dates for three free events on May 14 and 17, 2025

Notice of Photography and/or Videography. When you attend this event, you enter an area where photography and/or videography (which includes audio recording) may occur. By entering the event premises, you consent to such photography and/or videography and their release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction by the Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife. If you prefer not to have your photo and/or video taken, please inform WDFW staff immediately upon arrival. Staff will provide a sticker or tape for you to wear. You must wear the sticker/tape at all times. WDFW will make an effort to edit or remove any photos and/or video of you in which the sticker/tape is present. Any photos and/or videos posted in error will be immediately edited or removed upon request.

Due to the nature of audio recording that is a necessary part of videography, WDFW cannot warrant that outside/ambient audio from other individuals won’t be captured and released as part of said videography. All parties attending such an event consent to WDFW using such outside/ambient audio recording as part of any videography process.