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Bears Enter Summer habitat for 2020 Season let the exploration begin! On May 8th our two Grizzly Bears, Grinder and Coola, entered their large summer habitat earlier than previous seasons.  The bears, awake and out of hibernation since April 21st, welcomed the opportunity to explore their familiar habitat and to play in the large mounds of snow that are still present.The new habitat includes

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program in the first few years.Being enterprising in his approach and always looking for new opportunities, Johnsen looked for ideas fromelsewhere in the industry. He decided to focus on children’s programs – providing safe reliable instructors inwhich parents could be confident. The program was launched and with Johnsen’s knack for promotionthey started seeing 400 kids per day on weekends within two

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Grinder and Coola enter their upper pond habitat Thanks to the hard work of our crews we were able to get Grinder and Coola's (our two Grizzly Bears that inhabit that refuge) large 2.5 acre Upper Pond habitat set-up nice and early for them.  Both bears came out of hibernation on April 2nd and were in their hibernation habitat while we set-up the larger space.  Due to large amounts of snowfall we

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sleeping inside the den each evening but spend their days outside watching as spring develops here on Grouse Mountain.  The bears are not as hungry as you might think as their digestive tracks have been in shut down mode during their winter sleep.  Each day they are receiving several large heads of Romaine lettuce in addition to root vegetables such as carrots and sweet potatoes.  This roughage helps

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Grinder and Coola Begin Winter Preparations The days are getting shorter and the weather is turning colder and that's a sure sign that the bears are getting ready for their long winter sleep!  Grinder and Coola, our two resident Grizzly Bears at the Refuge for Endangered Wildlife, have been into hyperphagia (basically a fancy word for pigging out) phase for the last month and a bit now and have

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Gear Up for Family Day With the long weekend approaching we want to make sure you've got the gear you need to hit the slopes. Our retail team has put together their top picks of the latest gear available in Outfitters.Smith Liberty Helmet: Offering best-inclass, ventilated Aerocore™ protection featuring Koroyd® with adjustable climate control. Combining a cozy XT2® performance lining with

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ski destination. The earliest pioneers at the Peak of Vancouver were trailblazers in the truest sense of the word and their contributions to Grouse Mountain culture cannot go unmentioned.As the largest of its kind in British Columbia, the Grouse Mountain Tyee Ski Club has a storied history of developing some of the best homegrown alpine talent in the country, including the likes of Olympic gold

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by a truck and, of her three cubs, Coola was the only one to survive. Coola is an easygoing bear who’s content to let Grinder take the lead in new discoveries. He can usually be found submerged up to his neck in the large pond, carefully feeling around for his underwater 'bath toys' - a log, large bone and favourite rock. About Grouse Mountain: Grouse Mountain is the number one visitor attraction

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Meet our newest wildlife ambassadors baby owls Over the last couple of months here at Grouse Mountain we've had a couple new additions to our Wildlife Ambassador team.  Since late April we've been hand raising a young Barred Owl here at the Refuge (see the photo beside here) - he came to us from the Northern Spotted Owl Reintroduction Program where Barred Owls are helping researchers learn the

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Grinder and Coola Enter Lower Pond Habitat 2019 Today marked one of the earliest annual openings of our Grizzly Bear Lower Pond Habitat.  With the amount of snowfall here on Grouse Mountain we have to take down Grinder and Coola's complete 5.5 acre summer habitat each year.  In the spring, we need to remove the snow and re-set it up in stages.  The Lower Pond side is the last stage and now the

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