{"id":44,"date":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","date_gmt":"2015-10-18T23:35:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2023-04-11T16:41:38","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T16:41:38","slug":"anne-loosen","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/grad.biology.ualberta.ca\/boyce\/anne-loosen\/","title":{"rendered":"Anne Loosen, M.Sc."},"content":{"rendered":"

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Black Bear Monitoring Project<\/strong><\/p>\n

In southwestern Alberta, spring and\u00a0fall hunter harvest tags are issued for public and private lands and\u00a0landowners can harvest black bears year-round without a tag. Despite the\u00a0popularity of black bear hunting in Alberta, neither harvest method\u00a0requires reporting to wildlife or enforcement agencies. Poorly managed\u00a0harvest strategies can result in long term population declines,\u00a0reduction in subsequent hunter success, and reduced size of bears if\u00a0harvest rates are high. Like other bear species, black bears are\u00a0slow-reproducing mammals, producing one to four cubs on average every\u00a0two to three years. Yet, the last provincial black bear population\u00a0estimate in Alberta is over 20 years old.<\/p>\n

Black\u00a0bears also face a changing landscape in southwestern Alberta, including\u00a0an increasing grizzly bear presence. Southwestern Alberta is home to\u00a0the highest grizzly bear densities in Alberta. Today, places where\u00a0landowners have historically seen black bears, they report seeing\u00a0primarily grizzly bears. Dominance hierarchy and predation avoidance\u00a0hypotheses suggest that grizzly bears could alter the feeding behaviour,\u00a0activity patterns, and home range sizes of black bears.\u00a0In\u00a0collaboration with our grizzly research project, a new Black Bear\u00a0Monitoring Project\u00a0has started in southwestern Alberta in partnership\u00a0with\u00a0Alberta Environment and Parks<\/a>,\u00a0Parks Canada<\/a>,\u00a0Alberta Parks<\/a>,\u00a0Waterton Biosphere Reserve<\/a>, and the\u00a0University of <\/a>Alberta<\/a>.\u00a0We will document how black bear abundance, density, \"IMG_0753\"<\/a>and distribution\u00a0vary across the study area. We are also interested in how black and\u00a0grizzly bears segregate habitat in southwestern Alberta.<\/p>\n

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Website:\u00a0http:\/\/www.biology.ualberta.ca\/blackbear\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Contact: annieloosen@gmail.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Black Bear Monitoring Project In southwestern Alberta, spring and\u00a0fall hunter harvest tags are issued for public and private lands and\u00a0landowners can harvest black bears year-round without a tag. Despite the\u00a0popularity of black bear hunting in Alberta, neither harvest method\u00a0requires reporting…
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