Helping Prepare the Bitterroot Ecosystem for Grizzly Bear Recovery
Wind River Bear Institute Biologist, Jessica Reyes, and Director of the Wind River Karelian Bear Dog Partners, Carrie Hunt, with Wildlife K-9s “Joni” and “Mowgli” continued their work in the Bitterroot Grizzly Bear Recovery Ecosystem, Montana this summer with a focus...
*NEW* Karelian Bear Dogs Help Protect Bears & People Fundraising Stickers!
The Wind River Bear Institute - Karelian Bear Dog Partners are fundraising for our upcoming trip to Finland!!! To help support this endeavor, we created 2 "Karelian Bear Dogs Help Protect Bears & People" fundraising stickers! These stickers are available in...
Wildlife K-9 Team Mardy and Rio Work to Keep Firefighters Safe and Happy
Protection. Insurance. Morale boosters. This is how firefighters on the Dalton Highway Complex describe Mardy and Rio, the two Karelian bear dogs who help to keep them safe from bears, moose, and other large animals. Currently, firefighters on the northern end of the...
Wind River Karelian Bear Dogs in the Filson Journal!
In 2003, when the Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife launched their Karelian Bear Dog Program (KBDP) with one dog, Mishka, it was viewed as an anomaly, an outlier, a longshot that would probably fail. Yet it didn’t. Instead, it was successful and quickly...
Bear Shepherds: Carrie Hunt’s dogs train bears to steer clear of people
You can’t scare easily when all that stands between you and a 600-pound grizzly is a couple of barking dogs. Carrie Hunt apparently comes by that naturally. The founder and director of Florence’s Wind River Institute–Wind River Karelian Bear Dog Partners has spent...
WRBI Wildlife K-9s working with the BLM Alaska Fire Service
BLM Alaska Fire Service's Mike Bradley talks to Nils Pedersen and Wildlife K-9s Soledad, Rio and Mardy of the Wind River Institute about how the bear dogs work to deter interactions between firefighting personnel and bears, educating people on methods to eliminate...
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