Healthy habitat is essential for wild bear conservation. Loss of habitat is the most significant factor in declining bear populations. Bear Trust raises funds to restore and enhance critical bear habitat on public and private lands. Bear Trust also supports work to acquire conservation easements on private property where wild bears are found. Through its core conservation programs, Bear Trust supports research efforts to define and conserve habitat. Bear Trust also engages in education outreach to inform the public about the need for healthy habitat.

Current Projects

1. El Carmen, Coahuila State, Mexico

Bear Trust has developed a partnership with CEMEX Corporation's El Carmen Project in northern Mexico. CEMEX, one of the largest cement companies in the world, owns several hundred thousand acres in the El Carmen Natural Area, and seeks to protect and restore the native flora and fauna of Maderas del Carmen Ecosystem in northern Coahuila , Mexico.

Updates on the El Carmen Project are coming soon!

2. Adopt-a-Dumpster Program

Although primarily a bear management initiative, the Adopt-a-Dumpster Program also affects habitat conservation by helping to create environments where bears and humans can co-exist.

For more information on our Adopt-a-Dumpster Programs, CLICK HERE

Past Projects

1. Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area, MT

The Blackfoot-Clearwater Wildlife Management Area is the state’s largest and oldest WMA, Comprising 67,000 acres of critical habitat for elk, deer, grizzly bear and numerous other species. The State of Montana has been assembling and consolidating this game range for over 50 years. The last significant private in-holding in the WMA was 3834 acres owned by Plum Creek Timber Company. The Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation purchased these parcels from Plum Creek on May 17, 2004 for re-sale to Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks when funds become available. Because the Blackfoot-Clearwater WMA protects important grizzly bear habitat, Bear Trust International contributed to assist with this acquisition.

2. Selkirk Grizzly Recovery Program; Canyon Creek Preserve

No more than 50 grizzlies remain in the Selkirk Mountains of northern Idaho. Protecting the movement corridor from their high-altitude winter and summer habitat in the Selkirk Mountains to their critical spring and autumn food sources in the Kootenai River valley below is critical to the grizzlies’ survival and recovery. The Canyon Creek Preserve Project included the 394-acre Buchner Ranch which lies in this critical movement corridor. The Vital Ground Foundation, a land trust dedicated to conserving key grizzly bear habitat on private land, is purchasing a conservation easement on the Buchner Ranch, which adjoins two additional protected areas.

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