Many of you know that the bears here help us test bear resistant containers, a side job that’s a big hit with both visitors and bears. You may not know that we keep track of every success and failure for each year. During 2020, the bears tested a total of 43 containers. 
This was broken down into coolers (16), plastic garbage carts or curbside bins (13), backpack canisters (8), panniers or saddle packs (3), dumpsters (2), and food storage lockers (1). We saw a 30% pass rate this year.
That’s quite a bit lower than our long-term 60% pass average, but many of the companies testing this year have existing products that have passed and were testing new designs intended to make their products lighter, larger or smaller, easier to use, or more affordable.
The more we can help get a variety of successful products to market, the better for people and for wild bears. During the test, each container is filled with food to entice the bears, and then put in the habitat with the bears.
If the bears are unable to access the food inside after 60 minutes of direct contact, the container can be certified “bear-resistant” from the Interagency Grizzly Bear Committee (IGBC).” grizzlydiscoveryctr.org/research/produ…
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