There may be wildlife on the signage, but there won’t be wildlife roaming the property.

The Fernie Fox Hotel, located between the Elk River and the base of Mt. Fernie along Highway 3, has become the first commercial property in Fernie to install a certified bear proof garbage bin for hotel waste.

The bin, manufactured by Steel Container Systems of Nanaimo, is the same bin design used by Parks Canada in all of the Rocky Mountain parks. It is made of 12-gauge steel plate, with bear proof front sloping lid.

“We live and work in bear habitat. With our location at the base of Mt. Fernie, and right next to the Elk River, we’re in a wildlife corridor, and doing everything we can to minimize attractants, and human-wildlife conflicts, is just plain common sense,” said Jeremiah Pauw, co-owner of the Fernie Fox Hotel, along with his wife Marina Puaw.

“We have a cute and cuddly fox for our logo, but we don’t want to wake up to a “cute and cuddly” bear in our parking lot.”

The Fernie Fox Hotel is also among the first to completely eliminate single use plastics from its premises, as well as being the first to install a 52.4kW grid-tied solar array to the roof of the building.

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