The Mad River Valley Community Calendar is The Valley’s most comprehensive events calendar. All are invited to submit their event here:
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What is going on with all of the bears in the Mad River Valley? Are there more of them on the landscape than there used to be in the past? What actions are humans taking that contribute to these conflicts? And since when did these bears learn to open car doors? Please join the Mad […]
Spring is upon us and the return of warm weather also means the return of our black bears! Emerging from hibernation and hungry for calories, our bears find trash cans, bird feeders, and compost piles to be easy meals. They mean no harm, but this behavior leads them to losing their wariness of people and […]
The MRV Bear Initiative holds this event to share information about co-existing with the black bears in our landscape. We will have LOTS of information, resources, and demonstrations on black bears and how to keep them wild. The main goal is to deny them access to human food sources: trash, recycling, compost, birdfeeders, beehives, chicken […]
