✓Keep your garbage and recycling secured

 

​Store all garbage in the house or another secure enclosure like the garage or shed. Don’t put your garbage on the curb the night before pick-up! Wash your recyclables before putting them at the curb.

 

 

✓ Do not feed the birds during bear season

(middle of May until the middle of November).

 

Or make the feeders (including hummingbird feeders) inaccessible to bears.​

 

 

 

✓ Do not feed your pets outdoors

 

Keep pet food inside or another secure location. Think about purchasing a bear proof container, if you don’t have a secure place to store the food.​

 

 

✓ Pick ripe fruit daily and cleanup windfall often.

 

Remove fruit trees and plant non-fruit bearing trees or shrubs if the fruit is unwanted. Think about donating your unwanted fruit to the local food bank. 

 

 

✓ Clean Barbecues after each use 
 

By burning grease off the grill. Store BBQs inside if possible.​

 

 

✓ Turn your compost frequently and add “brown” materials.

 

Do not put meat, fish, dairy products, unrinsed eggshells, fat, oils, or cooked foods into the compost. Cover compost with leaves and soil to reduce odours. If your compost smells rotten you’re doing something wrong!

Freeze compost, especially odorous food like fish, turkey until pick-up day.​

 

​✓ Keep Freezers and refrigerators inside.

 

If you have no secure place for a freezer, make sure it is locked tight.