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Bear Safety Review: Using Bear Biology to Help Keep You Safe

Organized by the Engineers and Geoscientists in the Resource Sector Division

Date(s):
Wednesday, January 27, 2021
Log-in: 11:45 AM
Webinar: 12:00 PM–1:00 PM
Format:
Webinar
Status:
Advanced registration is now closed. Please contact Stuart Nash at 604.558.6655 for more information. Thank you.

Eligible for 1 CE Hour(s) of Informal Learning

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Event Details

Cost

Engineers and Geoscientists in the Resource Sector Division member: $15 + GST = $15.75

Engineers and Geoscientists BC registrant (Professional or EIT/GIT): $20 + GST = $21.00

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Group webinar presentation (for office environments): $45 + GST = $47.25

Students: $10 + GST = $10.50

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Contact

For registration inquiries, please contact Garth Lord at [email protected].

Event Description

In this webinar, our speaker, Tony Hamilton, RPBio, M.Sc., will focus on bear biology, including how a priori knowledge of seasonal food and habitat selection and sign interpretation can be used to help stay safe. He will review the differences between black and grizzly bear encounters, defensive or predatory situations, and provide an updated summary of BC bear attack circumstances and statistics.

About the Event

Please come prepared to describe your recent bear encounters: Did you do the right thing? Did you know why the bear did what it did? What would you do differently? How would you advise your colleagues on the basis of your encounter? If you had a recent encounter you are willing to share with the group, please let us know in advance during registration. He will give us his perspective on what happened, why, and whether you did—or perhaps didn’t—respond appropriately. If time permits, Tony will also attempt to answer any questions you may have about BC bears, not necessarily related to safety.

Speaker

A.N. (Tony) Hamilton, RPBio, M.Sc. (Forestry)

Tony is a semi-retired bear biologist currently contracted by the Okanagan Nation Alliance to assist with Grizzly bear recovery planning in the Manning and Skagit Park area. Tony worked for the Ministry of Environment on bears from 1982–2018 as a researcher and manager, with specialties in bear-forestry interactions, land use planning and cumulative effects of major project development. He is a regular educator on human-bear conflict prevention, including worker safety in bear country and has recently helped the Forest Practices Board and FLNROD Inventory Branch review and update their field crews’ bear knowledge safety practices and protocols.




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