What:
Celebrate our bear friends with a variety of opportunities to learn more about them – from grizzly bears to sun and sloth bears. Enjoy free keeper talks, enrichment for the bears, mini-presentations by the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project on wild grizzly bears and grizzly bear conservation, bear discovery boxes and more during Bear Awareness Weekend, Saturday-Sunday, May 14-15.

The following groups will be on hand and are partners in efforts to have positive effects on Washington wildlife: Grizzly Bear Outreach Project; Counter Assault; U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; Northwest Ecosystem Alliance; Cascade Land Conservancy; Washington Department of Fish and Wildlife and USDA Forest Service.

WHEN: Saturday-Sunday, May 14-15
Activities May 14:

• Chris Morgan, Grizzly Bear Outreach Project: 9:30 a.m., 11:30 a.m., 3:00 p.m. at the Northern Trail’s Tundra Center.
• Meet a keeper: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. inside the Northern Trail’s Taiga Viewing Shelter.
• Grizzly bear enrichment: 10:00 a.m., noon, 3:30 p.m. inside the Northern Trail’s Taiga Viewing Shelter.
• Asian bears enrichment: 1:00 p.m. at the sloth bear exhibit.

Activities May 15:

• Meet a keeper: 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m. inside the Northern Trail’s Taiga Viewing Shelter.
• Grizzly bear enrichment: 10:00 a.m., noon, 3:30 p.m. inside the Northern Trail’s Taiga Viewing Shelter.
• Asian bears enrichment: 1:00 p.m. at the sloth bear exhibit.
• Wild Wise presentation: 11:30 a.m., 3:00 p.m. at the Northern Trail’s Tundra Center.

Where:
Woodland Park Zoo, 601 N. 59th St., Seattle. South Entrance: N. 50th St. & Fremont Ave N. West Entrance: N. 55th St. & Phinney Ave. N. North Entrance: N. 59th St. & Phinney Ave. N.

Cost:
Free with zoo admission.

Info:
For more information about Bear Awareness Weekend, call 206.684.4800 for more information. For more information about the Grizzly Bear Outreach Project, log onto www.bearinfo.org.

Accredited by the American Zoo and Aquarium Association, award-winning Woodland Park Zoo is famed for pioneering naturalistic exhibits and setting a standard for zoos all over the world. With conservation, education and excellent animal care at the core of the zoo’s mission, the zoo is helping to save endangered species in Washington state and around the world including tree kangaroos, snow leopards, red-crowned cranes, African wild dogs, western pond turtles and Oregon silverspot butterflies. By inspiring visitors and others to care and act, Woodland Park Zoo is making a difference in our planet’s future.