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- EIN 45-4591214
- 360-344-2008
- Po Box 147 Port Townsend WA 98368 USA
- http://westernwildlife.org
- grizzbop
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Nonprofit Overview
Mission: Western Wildlife Outreach promotes science-based information on the ecology and natural history of large carnivores native to the Pacific Northwest and addresses misconceptions and myths, providing effective tools that human communities can safely employ, keeping humans safe and wild carnivores wild.
Results: Education is an ongoing, steady process. Each year, Western Wildlife Outreach can measure the improvement in knowledge and understanding of large carnivores in the audiences with which we engage.
Programs: We work closely in a non-advocacy setting with the state and federal agencies which provide the bulk of our funding. During 2014, we promoted safety and awareness of large carnivores to members of the public through our outreach efforts. We also gave out an estimated 55,000 pieces of high quality carnivore informational brochures to the public and state and federal resource agencies. Outreach efforts included public slideshow and movie presentations to community groups, tabling presence at dozens of local fairs and outdoor-related events, multi-day presence at the washington state fair, large sportsmens shows and large sporting goods outlets. We also hosted and moderated a series of regional public meetings throughout washington state of the washington state department of fish and wildlife regarding gray wolf outreach. We partner with the us fish and wildlife service and the interagency grizzly bear committee to provide public access to a traveling "bear trailer" which contains full body taxidermy mounts of bears and other bear-related information. During this past year, as gbop changes its name to western wildlife outreach, we hosted a meeting of federal, state and non governmental agencies to discuss and formulate additional avenues of large carnivore outreach.