How your donation will go directly to helping protect black bears across Colorado.

1. Unwelcome Mat Fund to help us purchase electric unwelcome mats to loan out to community members. Most states will euthanize a bear once it enters a home, as it is then considered a safety risk. But what if we could stop bears from ever getting to that point?

   Electrified mats are designed to do just that. By placing them in front of doors, under windows, on decks, near crawl-space entrances — anywhere a bear might try to get in — you can give bears a memorable but harmless deterrent. The shock is strong enough to make them think twice, but it doesn’t injure them. It keeps bears safe, and it keeps your home secure. Each bear mat costs $550 — a small price compared to the damage a bear can cause, and priceless compared to a bear’s life.

   We’re launching a loaner program so more families can access this solution without having to buy a mat outright. Your contribution to this campaign will help us build that program and protect both people and bears.

2. Creation of an Independent Bear Review Board to review every bear death and relocation that is a result of human-bear conflict. In addition to reviewing CPW response, this review board will review all stakeholder actions prior to the incident including state and federal agencies, elected officials, law enforcement, waste haulers and community. Recommendations will be made to continuously improve how bears are managed while reducing the need to handle bears.  

3. Development of a Community Bear Kit that will provide critical tools and resources for communities to create a local bear organization and get the support they need.

4. Revising State Statute making it easier for wildlife officials and communities to enforce the feeding of bears and other wildlife. (This includes removing the need to prove intent of luring bears.) 

5. Adopting Statewide Requirements for adequate trash management and enforcement for local municipalities in bear country.

6. Empowering communities to make local changes. We empower communities to create the infrastructure needed to proactively change human behavior - the source of nearly all human-bear conflict.

With a growing coalition, our network is rapidly gaining strength, knowledge and respect, leading to a growing ability to establish sustainable infrastructure to remove attractants and protect bears.  

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUPPORT!