Bears/Bear Center

The WSU Children’s Center has several classes that take field trips to the Bear Center. Here are photos of one class that visited during enrichment preparation.

Photos and video of the bear enrichment program in action.

Hibernating bears have evolved to add as much fat as possible each fall so they can survive several months without eating, and WSU researchers are working to figure out how they do it.

The WSU Bear Center has a treadmill that will be used to measure the energy cost for various activities, including lying, sitting, standing and walking.

Photos and videos of the bear enrichment program, during setup and while the bears are in the exercise yard.

The grizzly dens at the WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center received a spring facelift.

Volunteers at the WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center interact regularly with Brandon Evans Hutzenbiler and Charlie Robbins. Here’s a little background info about each one.

The WSU Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center has 11 grizzlies in six pens. Here’s a little info about each one of them.

The grizzlies at WSU’s Bear Research, Education, and Conservation Center are ready to start their long winter sleep.

Grizzly bears’ long claws enable them to swipe salmon from rivers, dig through ground for rodents, rip apart old tree stumps for insects and scoop out hard terrain to construct large dens