Grants and Contracts Details
Description
Research efforts will use non-invasive techniques and traditional live trapping mark-recapture approaches in combination
to document and analyze key demographic and spatial attributes that are important to the management of black bears in the
Commonwealth. Findings will facilitate an imrpoved understanding of population dynamics as they relate to patterns of
expansion, population growth, human-bear interactions that will inform management of the species, including the regulated
harvest. This research project continues to document the distribution, relative abundance, population demographics,
reproductive output, and habitat use of black bears in Kentucky. Data collected will be used to further our understanding
about bear population expansion, population growth, and privide necessary data to refine demographic parameters required of
predictive population models that in turn inform harvest levels.
Status | Finished |
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Effective start/end date | 7/15/12 → 5/30/13 |
Funding
- KY Department of Fish and Wildlife: $90,000.00
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