Bear & Wilderness Awareness

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Bear and Wilderness Awareness

Bear Awareness

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Wilderness & Bear Awareness

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This online course provides information that will prepare you to handle situations that you may encounter when working, hunting, camping, or travelling in bear country. In addition to teaching you about the general characteristics and habits of bears, you will learn how to recognize and react to both defensive and non-defensive attacks to ensure you make it home unharmed.

BEAR AWARENESS ONLINE COURSE TOPICS

  • Differences between grizzly and black bears
  • General characteristics
  • Bear behaviour and body language
  • Signs of agitation
  • Distribution of bear populations
  • Breeding
  • Hibernation
  • Food sources
  • Hunting, camping, and travelling safely in bear country
  • How to store food in a campsite
  • Avoiding a bear encounter
  • Recognizing and reacting to defensive and non-defensive attacks
  • When and how to play dead
  • Using and handling bear spray
  • Bear bangers

The biggest danger that people face in outdoor survival situations is being unprepared. Accordingly, this online course, which includes interviews with experts on various aspects of outdoor survival, provides information that will assist you to handle most situations that you may encounter in the outdoors when help isn’t just around the corner.

WILDERNESS AWARENESS ONLINE COURSE TOPICS

  • Responding appropriately to encounters with cougars, moose, elk, wolves, or snakes in the wild
  • Minimizing and treating bites and stings from wood ticks, mosquitoes, and bees
  • Bear awareness
    • Physical differences and general characteristics of bears
    • Bear behaviour and body language
    • Hibernation
    • Food sources
    • How to store food in a campsite
    • Hunting, camping, and travelling safely in bear country
    • Avoiding bear encounters
    • Recognizing and reacting to defensive and non-defensive attacks
    • When and how to play dead
    • Using and handling bear spray
    • Bear bangers
  • Reducing exposure to Lyme disease
  • Building emergency shelters in winter and summer months
  • Reacting to lightning
  • Staying safe around trees during normal and high-wind situations
  • Signalling for help
  • Making water safe for drinking
  • Preventing hypothermia and frostbite

COURSE DURATION: Approximately 60 minutes

ASSESSMENT: A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Users are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION: Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available to download and print.

UNIVERSALLY COMPATIBLE
mobile compliant This course was created using standards that will allow playback on most internet capable devices with standard web browsing capabilities including Apple’s iTouch, iPad, and iPhone, as well as most other smart phones and tablets including those with Android and Windows operating systems.

COURSE DURATION: Approximately 150 minutes

ASSESSMENT: A mark of 80% must be achieved in order to receive a certificate of completion. Participants are able to repeat the course twice if the pass mark is not achieved.

CERTIFICATE OF COMPLETION: Upon successful completion of this online course, a certificate of completion will be available to download and print.

UNIVERSALLY COMPATIBLE
mobile compliant This course was created using standards that will allow playback on most internet capable devices with standard web browsing capabilities including Apple’s iTouch, iPad, and iPhone, as well as most other smart phones and tablets including those with Android and Windows operating systems.