{"id":212157,"date":"2025-12-05T14:27:36","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:27:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?p=212157"},"modified":"2025-12-05T14:27:37","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T19:27:37","slug":"mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award and inducted into the Wildlife Rehabbers Hall of Fame.<\/p>\n\n\n<div style=\"float: left; margin-right: 14px;\"><strong><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45658\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone><\/strong><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>McIntosh began his career by volunteering at Aspen Wildlife Sanctuary and working with Audrey. In 1992, Mike founded the Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation Centre for Bears. Bear With Us cares for black bear cub orphans and injured bears. McIntosh also offers education about black bears alongside his wife and partner, Ella. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McIntosh became fascinated by &#8220;perceived&#8221; dangerous bears and our misunderstanding of these species. He works closely with the Ministry of Natural Resources&#8217; Bear Wise program. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>McIntosh is a partner in the wildlife education initiative Coyote Wolf Bear and has been a member of Ontario Wildlife Rescue\u2019s board of directors for almost 20 years. McIntosh was also a fierce opponent of the spring bear hunt in Ontario, working with multiple organizations, and has always offered support and encouragement to other Wildlife Rehabbers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u00a0The Wildlife Rehabbers Hall of Fame was established by in 2017 by \u00a0Ontario Wildlife Rescue (OWR), and two awards are given out annually. The two awards are &#8220;Wildlife Rehabber of the Year&#8221; (a Wildlife Rehabber who has made a difference to wildlife rescue in Ontario) and &#8220;Wildlife Hero Award&#8221; (a non-wildlife rehabber who has gone above and beyond and made a difference to wildlife rehabbing in Ontario).<\/p>\n\n\n<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\">Don\u2019t miss out on Doppler!<\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Sign up <a href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/dont-miss-out-on-doppler\/\"><u>here<\/u><\/a> to receive our email digest with links to our most recent stories.<br \/>\nLocal news in your inbox so you don&#8217;t miss anything!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"background: #5cb85c url('https:\/\/d1iczxrky3cnb2.cloudfront.net\/red_logo.png') no-repeat 37px; color: #fff; text-decoration: none; font-family: Verdana,sans-serif; display: inline-block; font-size: 16px; padding: 15px 38px; padding-left: 75px; -webkit-border-radius: 2px; -moz-border-radius: 2px; border-radius: 2px; box-shadow: 0 1px 0 0 #1f5a89; text-shadow: 0 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.3);\" href=\"https:\/\/donorbox.org\/support-huntsville-doppler\">Click here to support local news<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><broadstreet-zone zone-id=\"45657\" keywords=\"\" soft-keywords=\"true\" zone-alias=\"\"><\/broadstreet-zone>\n\n\n\n<p> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award and inducted into the Wildlife Rehabbers Hall of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1904,"featured_media":212161,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-212157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work - Huntsville Doppler<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work - Huntsville Doppler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Huntsville Doppler\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HuntsvilleDoppler\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2025-12-05T19:27:36+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2025-12-05T19:27:37+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"730\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"532\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Doppler Online\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@Hville_Doppler\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@Hville_Doppler\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Doppler Online\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"4 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Doppler Online\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/person\/3e6b0695dcb78273e5a4854699a12938\"},\"headline\":\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-05T19:27:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-05T19:27:37+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\"},\"wordCount\":239,\"commentCount\":6,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png\",\"articleSection\":[\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\",\"name\":\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work - Huntsville Doppler\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png\",\"datePublished\":\"2025-12-05T19:27:36+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2025-12-05T19:27:37+00:00\",\"description\":\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award.\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png\",\"width\":730,\"height\":532,\"caption\":\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us. (Photo supplied)\"},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/\",\"name\":\"Huntsville Doppler\",\"description\":\"Read Local\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#organization\",\"name\":\"Huntsville Doppler\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-CA\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/03\/logo-Canadian-1.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/03\/logo-Canadian-1.jpg\",\"width\":760,\"height\":212,\"caption\":\"Huntsville Doppler\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/\"},\"sameAs\":[\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HuntsvilleDoppler\/\",\"https:\/\/x.com\/Hville_Doppler\",\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/huntsville_doppler\/\"]},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/person\/3e6b0695dcb78273e5a4854699a12938\",\"name\":\"Doppler Online\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/author\/doppler-online\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work - Huntsville Doppler","description":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award.","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work - Huntsville Doppler","og_description":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award.","og_url":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/","og_site_name":"Huntsville Doppler","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HuntsvilleDoppler\/","article_published_time":"2025-12-05T19:27:36+00:00","article_modified_time":"2025-12-05T19:27:37+00:00","og_image":[{"width":730,"height":532,"url":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png","type":"image\/png"}],"author":"Doppler Online","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@Hville_Doppler","twitter_site":"@Hville_Doppler","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Doppler Online","Est. reading time":"4 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/"},"author":{"name":"Doppler Online","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/person\/3e6b0695dcb78273e5a4854699a12938"},"headline":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work","datePublished":"2025-12-05T19:27:36+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-05T19:27:37+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/"},"wordCount":239,"commentCount":6,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png","articleSection":["News"],"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/","url":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/","name":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work - Huntsville Doppler","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png","datePublished":"2025-12-05T19:27:36+00:00","dateModified":"2025-12-05T19:27:37+00:00","description":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us Sanctuary and Rehabilitation in Sprucedale has been honoured with the 2025 Rehabber of the Year Award.","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-CA","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/12\/Mike-McIntosh.png","width":730,"height":532,"caption":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us. (Photo supplied)"},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/mike-mcintosh-of-bear-with-us-honoured-for-his-work\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Mike McIntosh of Bear With Us honoured for his work"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#website","url":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/","name":"Huntsville Doppler","description":"Read Local","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-CA"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#organization","name":"Huntsville Doppler","url":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-CA","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/03\/logo-Canadian-1.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/media-doppleronline-ca.s3-accelerate.amazonaws.com\/2025\/03\/logo-Canadian-1.jpg","width":760,"height":212,"caption":"Huntsville Doppler"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"},"sameAs":["https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/HuntsvilleDoppler\/","https:\/\/x.com\/Hville_Doppler","https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/huntsville_doppler\/"]},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/#\/schema\/person\/3e6b0695dcb78273e5a4854699a12938","name":"Doppler Online","url":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/author\/doppler-online\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212157","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1904"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212157"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212157\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":212160,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212157\/revisions\/212160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212161"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212157"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212157"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/doppleronline.ca\/huntsville\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212157"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}