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How to keep bears out of your cabin Presented by: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game The Bear Necessities Coalition, Talkeetna, Alaska

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Page 1: How to keep bears out of cabins - Alaska Department of ......How to keep bears out of your cabin Presented by: The Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The Bear Necessities Coalition,

How to keep bears out of your cabin

Presented by:

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game

The Bear Necessities Coalition, Talkeetna, Alaska

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Build bear barriers

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Avoid this damage to your cabin.

Photo by Holly Stinson

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Build bear barriers stronger than these.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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When building bear shutters consider:using at least ¾ inch plywood.

mount shutters as flush to the wall as possible.

inset shutters inside the window frame.

use fully threaded hanger bolt screws.

make bear barriers easy to put up and take off.

simple is good!

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Hanger bolts and thumb screws make it easy to take shutters on and off.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Photo by Wayne Woller

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Inset shutter secured with barrel bolts.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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¾ inch plywood on a cable.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Release shutter and slide away from the window.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Photo by Brian Okonek

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Photo by Brian Okonek

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Welded window covers.

Photo by Sheldon Ewing, Weld Air

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The grating can be removed by releasing the horizontal bolts.

Photo by Sheldon Ewing, Weld Air

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A rail system

Photos by Tara Petter

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A pin secures the shutter.

Photo by Tara Petter

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A hinged shutter secured with gate latchesand a back up chain.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Another way to keep shutters or doors from being pulled open.

Photos by Chris Mannix

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Photo by Katmai Nat'l Park staff

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Ideally a door should open out.

If your door opens

inward design a way to keep it from being pushed in.

Put an eye bolt through the door and chain the door to the outer wall.

Build a bracket that will allow you to insert a 2 x 4 across the door.

Block a 2nd door from the inside with 2x4 brackets lag screwed into the wall.

DOORS

Photo by Brian Okonek

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This construction will allow a bear to easily enter your cabin.

Photos by Brian Okonek

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¾ inch plywood attached with hanger bolts and thumb screws and mounted flush with door jam.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Steel brackets made to prevent a door frombeing pushed inward.

Photo by Diane Okonek

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Photo by Diane Okonek

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Eye bolt through the doorwith a chain back-up so the door cannot be pushed in.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Steel security door designed and built by the owner.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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Welded door and window guards.

Photo by Sheldon Ewing, Weld Air

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If you have a seconddoor that opens in, youcan secure it with brackets and a 2x4 from inside the cabin.

Photo by Brian Okonek

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To protect your property and keep bears wildbe creative and outsmart them.

Photos by Brian Okonek

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