Brown Bear and Human Recreational Use of Trails in Anchorage, Alaska

Anchorage, Alaska, has 301,000 human residents and hundreds of thousands of visitors each year. Anchorage also supports a viable population of brown bears (Ursus arctos). As a result, human–bear encounters are common. We used camera traps to monitor recreational trails near salmon spawning streams a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Jessica A. Coltrane, Rick Sinnott
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Utah State University 2017-02-01
Series:Human-Wildlife Interactions
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Online Access:https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/hwi/vol9/iss1/13