Tahoe Bear Box Co.

04/23/2026

Join us and other Lake Tahoe neighbors who care about the lake, our community, and the whole earth this Saturday.

Gearing up for Saturday's Earth Day celebration 🌎🌲🐟🛶🏔️

🌎 Tahoe Truckee Earth Day Festival
📍 Palisades Tahoe Village | Saturday, April 25 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Stop by our booth to learn how we’re working to keep Lake Tahoe sustainable, healthy, and safe for current and future generations. From preventing aquatic invasive species to advancing affordable housing solutions, we’ll be sharing what we’re working on and how you can get involved.

Come say hello, connect with our team, and be part of protecting Lake Tahoe.

04/22/2026

Super cute... until they are digging through your trash left in their cans out by the curb overnight!

04/18/2026

It’s that time of year that our friends come out of hibernation. We know you have a beer box of course. But do your friends? Tell your friends to stop getting up early to take out the trash and get their own bear box. If we all do our part, we will have a bear safe community.

04/18/2026

Join our friends at BEAR League today!

04/11/2026

Fantastic advice for creating a bear safe community.

I walked out of a den this week. I haven't eaten since October.

In November I weighed over two hundred pounds. I went underground, my body slowed down, and I stopped eating. In January — in the dark, alone — I gave birth to two cubs. I nursed them for three months without eating anything myself. My milk came from stored body fat.

I came out weighing closer to a hundred and thirty. Two cubs behind me who can barely walk. And I can smell your trash can from farther away than you'd believe.

🐻 I don't want to be in your driveway.

I want calories. Berries, insects, grasses — the food I normally eat — won't be available for weeks. Right now I'm surviving on whatever I can find. If your trash is unsecured, I can smell it, and I'll follow that signal because I have cubs and nothing else is ready yet.

Here's what matters for both of us: if I find food at your house, I come back. And if I keep coming back, I stop being afraid of people. A bear that loses her fear of yards doesn't last long. The best thing you can do for me is make sure I find nothing here and move on.

🌿 What helps:

- Secure your trash — bear-proof cans or a locked enclosure. Put them out the morning of pickup, not the night before
- Take down bird feeders from March through November — they're one of the strongest attractants in suburban areas
- Don't leave pet food, grills, or coolers outside overnight
- If you see me — make noise. Yell. Bang something. I'll run. That's the best outcome for both of us. A bear that's afraid of your yard is a bear that stays safe
- Don't approach cubs. I'm calm until I'm not, and my cubs change that math fast

I walked out of a den this week with two cubs I built from my own body. I need to gain back a third of my weight before summer.

Let me pass through. I'd rather find a rotting log full of grubs than your trash can. Help me keep it that way. 🌱

04/06/2026

Don’t let this happen to you! The bears are coming out of hibernation, and while our snow season was short, their hunger is endless! Reach out to us and get your new Tahoe Bear Box today!

Founded in 2003, Bear Box designs, manufactures, services and installs bear-proof trash enclosures throughout the Lake Tahoe and Sierra region. Our enclosures re IGBC-approved, exceed Architectural Standards Committees' standards, and are North America's top choice for bear-resistant trash enclosure...

04/01/2026

It's that time of year, despite the new snow on the ground around town. The bears are waking up, and they are hungry. If you haven't gotten your Bear Box ordered yet, now is the time. In addition to our great TS-230 and TS-330 models, we have a limited selection of reconditioned boxes available that can save you some money. But act fast, we only have a few. Link in comments.

11/25/2024

Locals know all too well the challenge Lake Tahoe faces with our growing bear population and how our actions impact these incredible creatures. 🐻🌲 This timely article from The New Yorker this morning sheds light on why making preparations around our homes is more important than ever.

As residents and lovers of Tahoe, it's up to us to protect both our community and the bears we share it with. One of the most effective steps is securing your trash with a bear box. If you don't have one yet, now is the perfect time to join your neighbors in making your community bear-safe!

👉 Read the full article here: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/12/02/lake-tahoes-bear-boom

🛡️ Today we're offering our Winter End-of-Season Promotion on all bear boxes. Secure your home and protect local wildlife today!

The vacation hot spot has been overrun by people—whose habits are drawing fast-moving animals with sharp claws and insatiable appetites.

09/28/2024

Join us at today to get a $50 coupon good towards any new Tahoe Bear Box purchase.

09/28/2024

This is the momma best and two cubs we previously shared from the door camera. Happy to report they were released above Incline Village and aren’t being euthanized.

Yesterday morning a bear cub was trapped in a debris dumpster in Incline Village. BEAR League was called by neighbors who heard him crying for his Mom and sibling. We responded immediately but so did the Sheriff, who unfortunately promptly called NDOW.

Our trained volunteers could have easily and quickly got the cub out of the dumpster, as we have done countless times before over the past 30 years. But we were told to 'stand back' as NDOW over-reacted and tranquilized the whole family of bears and told everyone they would be taken out of the area and released. (The Bear Trophy Hunt is taking place right now in all bear habitat other than the Nevada side of Tahoe so we knew this would mean the bear family would be delivered straight into the sites of the hunters and houndsmen).

We posted and told our readers what the NDOW staff told us they intended to do. The public was furious and commented accordingly and soon NDOW's lead Bear Biologist stepped in and told us the family would not be relocated out of the area but would instead be taken just up the hill and released. We are grateful that she used good judgment and took over, but none of this needed to happen in the first place. It turned into a three-ring circus, stressed the entire bear family and traumatized an entire community.

We trust the Biologist who told us the bears would be released within the Tahoe Basin, she is an honorable person and an asset to NDOW.

There are some out there who are pedaling serious misinformation and we would like to remind everyone that we were there and those who are creating chaos have no idea what they are talking about, but instead are inserting themselves into something they have no clue about. Be careful who you believe and don't fall into the 'cult mentality'.

(The photo is not the cub from this story, this was a previous incident when we responded to a cub in a dumpster and placed a bunk-bed ladder for the cub to climb out, which he did. This photo was taken by BEAR League Volunteer, Tim Snyder)

08/29/2024

It's that time of year again friends, the bears are out for your trash to get phat for the winter. Are you protecting your trash? your house? your community? Time to get a Tahoe Bear Box, or upgrade your old one!

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