Topics:

• Responding appropriately to encounters with cougars, moose, elk, wolves, or snakes in the wild
• Minimizing and treating bites and stings from wood ticks, mosquitoes, and bees
• Bear awareness
• Physical differences and general characteristics of bears
• Bear behaviour and body language
• Hibernation
• Food sources
• How to store food in a campsite
• Hunting, camping, and travelling safely in bear country
• Avoiding bear encounters
• Recognizing and reacting to defensive and non-defensive attacks
• When and how to play dead
• Using and handling bear spray
• Bear bangers
• Reducing exposure to Lyme disease
• Building emergency shelters in winter and summer months
• Reacting to lightning
• Staying safe around trees during normal and high-wind situations
• Signalling for help
• Making water safe for drinking
• Preventing hypothermia and frostbite