Bears: Quantifying Bear Populations and Bear-Human Conflicts in the Kennicott Valley, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve
Wilder JM, Mitchell CD, Reid ME. Bears: Quantifying Bear Populations and Bear-Human Conflicts in the Kennicott Valley, Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. 2000-2003
Thesis project support by Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve. Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve is experiencing rapidly increasing development along the McCarthy Road and in the McCarthy-Kennecott area. The National Park Service acquired the majority of the historic Kennecott Mill Site in 1998. Consequently, the area has become the focus of numerous changes, including road improvements, increased tourist traffic, facilities designed to accommodate Park visitors, new residences, and private land developments. These factors have a strong potential to negatively affect the resident bear populations and to dramatically increase the amount of bear-human conflicts in the area. The purpose of the project is to collect biological and ecological data that can be used to mitigate or eliminate some of the potential conflicts between bears and human developments.
- Type
- Project
- Authors
- Wilder, James; Mitchell, Carl; Reid, Mason
- Units
- CAKN , WRST
- Keywords
- Alaska, Bear populations, Genetics, hair sampling, human wildlife conflict, Kennecott, Kennicott
- Subjects
- Ecological Framework: Biological Integrity | Focal Species or Communities | Mammals