Seasonal Habitat Use and Home Range of Black Bears in the Shenandoah National Park
Teetor A and Vaughan M. Seasonal Habitat Use and Home Range of Black Bears in the Shenandoah National Park. In The Eighth Shenandoah Research Symposium. Skyland Lodge. May 10-11, 1984
One objective of the black bear research project is to create a forest cover map for the Central District. The map is designed to aid in determining seasonal habitat use by black bear (Ursus americanus). Color infrared (CIR) mapping and sampling techniques used by the Shenandoah National Park (SNP) black bear research project were developed and refined by the Virginia Commission of Game and Inland Fisheries (VCGIF) (Martin 1982) and the U.S. Forest Service (USDA, 1970). Color infrared slides taken in both summer and winter are projected at a 1:12,000 scale for mapping. The District was broken down into 15 compartments which follow major drainage patterns. Forest types are outlined on mylar film using slide color differences to create a number of stands in each compartment. (See Digital File for complete abstract)
- Type
- Conference Proceeding Paper
- Authors
- Teetor, Alison; Vaughan, Michael
- Units
- SHEN
- Keywords
- Black Bear, Central District, Field Identification, ground-truthing, habitat mapping, Infrared imagery, Ursus americanus