Why we started Bearacades!

Kane and I decided to start Bearacades! because we are tired of the number of bear/human interactions that are increasingly resulting in dead bears. These encounters are rising steadily with the bear population, and people are not changing their habits – they are expecting the bears to change theirs! The bears just figure our garbage and bird feeders are open invitations, and when you think about it, that’s exactly what they are. Some of them figure out that we have food inside our houses, too.

What services we offer.

We offer a range of solutions to deter bears from properties, including electric fencing and other products, based on the needs of each site. Education and information, having the property owner understand what the bear is attempting to do, based on what the owner is doing, and then changing that scenario is crucial to the solution. Our team is ready to help you now so give us a call.

What else we do:

Because encounters are more often a “people” problem than a “bear” problem, public education is a huge component of what we are trying to achieve. People often don’t realize that sometimes small changes in what they’re doing can make a huge difference in how a bear responds. Garbage is a big example. With more and more bears on the landscape, especially in a poor forage year, they’re looking for easier food sources. With the influx of visitors to our area who are not familiar with these issues, more garbage is left available for scavenging, and it reinforces and perpetuates the problem, especially when a mama bear teaches her cubs that garbage is a good food source.

We will educate people to get involved

Bearacades! offers educational programs to homeowners and groups interested in learning about bears and how to coexist with them.

Get in touch with us

Call us at 845-417-8928. We work closely with the DEC and Friends of the Feathered and Furry Wildlife Rehabilitation Center.

Bear Wisdom

“Always respect Mother Nature. Especially when she weighs 300 pounds and is guarding her baby.”
― James Rollins, Ice Hunt
“Bears find themselves at the spot where two deep-seated but contradictory human impulses collide: the desire to feel protected from unforeseeable danger and the longing for unspoiled nature.”
― Bernd Brunner, Bears: A Brief History
“Bears, it turns out, are a lot like humans. They form alliances with strangers, they make calculations about relative costs and benefits, they lay down rules and punish those who break them. They trade based on a clear system of reciprocity. They communicate using equal parts emotion, intention, and dependence on context-a combination that is essential for communication between strangers and in fact forms the basis for language.”
― Benjamin Kilham, In the Company of Bears: What Black Bears Have Taught Me about Intelligence and Intuition
“The best way of being kind to bears is not to be very close to them.”
― Margaret Atwood, MaddAddam
“When you are where wild bears live
you learn to pay attention to the rhythm of the land and yourself. Bears not only make the habitat rich, they enrich us just by being.”
― Linda Jo Hunter, Lonesome for Bears: A Woman’s Journey in the Tracks of the Wilderness
“All of the authoritative books on bears seem to agree on one thing: if you’re close enough to a bear to cause it to change its activity pattern, you’re too close, and in possible danger.”
― Dennis R. Blanchard, Three Hundred Zeroes: Lessons of the Heart on the Appalachian Trail