{"id":46750,"date":"2021-05-17T14:46:00","date_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bear-smart-to-host-online-speaker-series\/"},"modified":"2021-05-17T20:46:00","modified_gmt":"2021-05-17T20:46:00","slug":"bear-smart-to-host-online-speaker-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/bear-smart-to-host-online-speaker-series\/","title":{"rendered":"Bear Smart to host online speaker series"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Courtesy Bear Smart Durango\/Bear Smart will host on online bear aware series beginning May 26.<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Bear Smart Durango will host a series of live online presentations beginning May 26.<\/p>\n

The presentations will give residents a better understanding of black bears, best practices to reduce human-bear conflict, being safe in bear country and steps to make the area safe for people and bears.<\/p>\n

All presentations will be held from 6:30 to 8 p.m., allowing ample time for questions from audience members. This educational series is sponsored by The Durango Herald<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The schedule includes:<\/p>\n

May 16: Daryl Ratajczak will present \u201cThe Language of Bears: How Bears Communicate with us Through Vocalizations and Body Posturing.\u201d June 3: Gillian Sanders will present \u201cElectric Fencing to Protect Chickens, Bees, Small Livestock and fruit trees from bears.\u201dJune 10: Janel Scharhag will present \u201cNon-fatal Attacks by Black Bears in the Lower United States, 2000-17.\u201dJune 16: John Hechtel will present \u201cStaying Safe In Bear Country.\u201d Attendees are asked to watch the YouTube video \u201cStaying Safe in Bear Country<\/a>\u201d (30:35) before the talk. A Q&A session will be held after the talk.June 23: Colorado Parks and Wildlife will present \u201cBeing bear aware helps keep our communities and bears safe.\u201d<\/div>\n

For more information, visit www.bearsmartdurango.org\/bear-smart-online-speaker-series<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Courtesy Bear Smart Durango\/Bear Smart will host on online bear aware series beginning May 26. Bear Smart Durango will host a series of live online presentations beginning May 26. The presentations will give residents a better understanding of black bears, best practices to reduce human-bear conflict, being safe in bear country and steps to make […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46751,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[202],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-46750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-briefs"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46750"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46750\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46751"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46750"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=46750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}