Los Padres BEAR Aware

11/01/2026

☔️ RAIN causes Wildlife to Move!
Watch for wildlife crossing roadways! Watch for rocks and debris. Reduce your speed. Give yourself a few extra minutes to travel. Be BEARy safe!

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10/31/2026

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10/30/2026

🐻 Visiting or living in Pine Mountain Club, CA?
LOCK YOUR DOORS! Be sure to clean out your vehicles! Leave nothing scented inside! No trash, candy/mints/gum, no scented handi-wipes, no pet food or treats, clean baby car seats often, no beverage containers! Vacuum your floors & seats! Do NOT add air freshener at the Carwash!
Close garage doors, and keep your home doors locked at all times!
Video: Mama and 3 COY in PMC - mama checks the vehicle doors

3 baby bears

10/29/2026

Hello 🐻 Trick or Treat?
Yes, bears are still wandering around! All suggestions for reducing entry and visits apply. Walk your home & garage and double check that all windows are locked! 🔒 Most PMC bears enter torpor after 12/26.

📸 Photo taken in PMC November 1, 2018.

10/28/2026

Do not place real pumpkins outside! 🎃
Pumpkins are not native to Los Padres National Forest!
This is directly feeding a Bear! 🐻

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10/22/2026

🎃 Bears eating a pumpkin in North Carolina.
A reminder NOT to leave pumpkins & fall decor outside.

10/17/2026

🐻 The Bear Behavioral Ladder of Progression. 😢
I have posted this here before, but here it is again for those who are new to bears or in denial about how human related attractants & food changes the natural behavior of a Bear. Some people just feel better after a bear gets 60,000-100,000 calories from their house blaming a direct “bear feeder”. Unfortunately, it doesn’t matter if a bear consumes food indirectly or directly, in both instances, it’s feeding a bear! Every bite of birdseed, peanuts, pet food, unpicked apples, trash, etc. contributes to making a bear a food conditioned bear. 🐻

10/17/2026

🐻 Peanuts leave behind scent & oil, attracting bears. Never feed peanuts to birds on your property! Note - Bird feeding of any kind is banned in Pine Mountain Club.
🐻 Lock your Vehicle Doors EVERY time you exit your vehicle. Remove food, trash, crumbs, gum/mints, pet treats, etc.
🐻 Lock your home doors 24/7.
🐻 Bears will enter low windows and sliders that are open to a screen. They push in the screen or pull it off and enter a home in less than 10 seconds.
🐻 Any pet food placed outside must be supervised and removed when the pet is no longer eating it. Pet food dropped on a deck or concrete leaves behind scent. In the best interest of the bears that wander PMC, feed your pets inside to stop accidental consumption of pet food by a bear.
🐻 Make sure your grease trap on your BBQ is clean. Also, burn off any greasy residue every time you BBQ.
🐻 Pick up dog p**p frequently.
🐻 Doggy Doors are NOT safe. Every year, multiple bears use doggy doors to access homes.
☎️ If a Bear consumes ANY attractant on your property, get proper Bear help to avoid worse damage when the bear returns.  A BEAR obtaining food from any property outside begins the escalation of deck-checking & visits the property hoping to score more calories. 🐻

10/15/2026

🐻 Remove fruit from your Trees!
Apple trees are not native to Pine Mountain Club nor to Los Padres National Forest.
Do not feed bears! 🐻

10/12/2026

FALL DECOR & BEARS
YES - Bears Eat Pumpkins, so will other wildlife! 🐻 BEARS will walk up to anything that Looks Like a PUMPKIN, SUNFLOWER seeds, BERRIES, CORN, GOURDS, BIRD houses (they eat bird eggs & babies), etc. Bears do not understand what decor is - it just looks like food to them! Think before you place Fall decor near your front door! Do not attract bears to your door! 🎃 Placing REAL pumpkins and/or other fruit/vegetable type items on your property is the same as feeding wildlife and may result in a $$$$ citation. A bear's sense of smell is amazing, as a bear gets closer to your door it smells everything inside your house even more magnified than when passing by.