Up Close and Grizzly.

Abstract

The article presents information on the use of global positioning system for understanding animal behavior, improve wildlife management models, and provide accurate reference data for remote sensing applications used to produce habitat maps. According to a 2003 Alberta Sustainable Resource Development report by researcher Gordon Stenhouse and colleagues, the population model used to manage grizzly bear numbers in Alberta is incomplete and will continue to predict exponential growth rates when this is not biologically possible. A standard field method of habitat analysis in wildlife biology is to visit grizzly bear use sites, typically two to three weeks after the bear has left the area.