

The Roaring Fork Valley Bear Coalition, a proactive volunteer-based non-profit, is dedicated to reducing human-bear conflicts over a 50-mile corridor. Our citizen groups respond to community needs by reducing attractants, educating residents, and working alongside stakeholders: CPW, municipalities & trash-haulers to achieve common community goals, enforcement and actions that protect black bears. Join us, rally your communities, become solution-based!
If you have a bear issue, please feel free to reach out to us for help and advice.
Our straps are made with the help of Boy Scouts of America Aspen Troop 201.
Hazing – using physical discomfort to discourage bears from entering dumpsters, homes, cars, etc.
Relocation – tranquilizing and moving bears to a new habitat in the hopes they will not return.
Euthanization – Colorado Parks & Wildlife is forced to put down numerous bears every year.
When a bear(s) gets put down (by CPW or law enforcement) we receive the following questions from the public:
Why don’t they relocate the bear family? Relocation rarely works because bears travel hundreds of miles to get back to their original home range within weeks or end up getting killed by other dominant bears, hunters, or roads. It’s only a feel good solution for people.
Why don’t they bring them to a Sanctuary? The Colorado Parks and Wildlife created a regulation many years ago that prohibits wild-born animals from being placed in Sanctuaries due to the number of people in CO that would not be responsible about their trash – but would then expect every three strike bear to not be euthanized and be placed in a sanctuary instead.
If bears are rewarded with food at your home, bears will keep coming back!
Fed bears frequently cause property damage and can be unfairly labeled as nuisances and are often killed.
Bear Resistant Cans (BRC’s) need to be compliant with local waste companies.