GBOP Products
Door Hangers
This glossy door hanger provides important reminders about how to keep your yard free of bear attractants. Tips on proper sanitation and incident report phone numbers make this a convenient item to keep inside your back door, or to provide to a neighbor.
Download a PDF version of Bear Country Door Hanger for Washington Residents and Bear Country Hanger for Washington and Idaho Residents.
For those neighborhoods currently experiencing bear conflicts, the Bears Are in Your Area Hanger for Washington Residents and Bears Are in Your Area Hanger for Washington and Idaho Residents are means to educate neighbors about discouraging bears from the area.
GBOP Brochure
The GBOP brochure is a glossy, durable tri-fold containing useful, accurate information about grizzly bear ecology, behavior, safety, and sanitation considerations for the home, ranch, campground, or while hiking and horse packing, hunting and fishing. This website contains all of the information presented in the brochure.
Download a pdf version of the brochure (400 kb).
Bear Safety Brochure
This glossy brochure answers the most frequently asked questions about bears. The brochure also folds out into a poster which includes important information about safety in bear country. Keep it with you while backpacking, or display it in your home. This website contains all of the information presented in the brochure
Download a pdf version (1.4 mb)
Selkirk Brochure
The Selkirk Mountains of Washington, Idaho and British Columbia are home to two species of bear, the grizzly bear and the black bear. This brochure covers the importance of this region to the recovery of grizzly bears, how to identify a grizzly bear from a black bear, and how to report a sighting.
Download a pdf version (1.1 mb)
GBOP Poster
Actual poster size = 13 x 17 inches
Mini handout posters
(two 8.5 x 11 sheets) containing interesting facts, maps, and statistics ,
Download the pdf posters (2.5 MB ).
- Wildlife Conference Abstract – This abstract is a useful summary of the GBOP approach.
- Journal Article (pdf) – This five page article, Promoting understanding: The approach of the North Cascades Grizzly Bear Outreach Project, is published in the journal Ursus (2005) and provides information about grizzly bears, grizzly bear recovery, and the GBOP’s successful outreach approach.
- Bear Smart Check List (pdf) – This handout lists simple steps you can take in and around your home to be bear safe.
- Bear Tracks Flier (pdf) – This handout shows the Palmisciano Method for differentiating black and grizzly bear tracks.
- Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee Certified Bear Resistant Products (pdf) – This document explains how the IGBC certifies food storage containers and includes a list of containers they have certified for use on public lands.
- Attract Birds, Not Bears (pdf) – Bird feeders in some communities are involved in a large majority of bear problems around houses. This two page fact sheet describes how to attract birds, not bears.
- Bear Smart Quiz – Are you Bear Smart? Find out by taking this 15 question quiz.
- Kids’ Wolf Quiz – Are you Wolf Smart?! Take a short Wolf Quiz and find out!
- Cougar Fact Sheet – This two page handout is filled with some of the most commonly asked questions about cougars, and their answers.
- Bears of the Last Frontier – A book by Chris Morgan to accompany the television series.
- “Bear Country” Door Hangers (zipped PDFs)
- “Bears In Your Area” Door Hangers (zipped PDFs)
