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Wisconsin Chapter of The Wildlife Society Annual Conference. (Invited) 6) Black bear population, habitat and human conflict in Wisconsin. (5) An occupancy based model of black bear habitat in Wisconsin using empirical and landscape approaches. 4) A spatially explicit model of population and habitat: Black Bears in the Upper Midwest. International Association of Landscape Ecologists Annual Conference. Columbus, OH, December, 2008 3) A landscape level occupancy model of bear habitat in the Great Lakes region based on empirical data. 2) Behavior of scent station indices: a simulation of index response to changes in population density. Events: 1) A simulation of station-based population index response to changes in population density. 3) We used data from capture-recapture programs in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan to quantify habitat associations of black bears across the three states. 2) We created a flexible simulation environment to study the response of detection station population indices under a wide variety of species life history and study design characteristics. Progress 10/01/07 to 09/30/09 Outputs OUTPUTS: Activities: 1) We estimated the abundance of Wisconsin's 2006 black bear population using a tetracycline-biomarker capture-recapture technique. We propose to capitalize on this opportunity by modeling the spatial pattern of bear and human impacts (agricultural damage, and nuisance complaints) as spatially explicit functions of bear population density and spatialĮxtent (from the Mark-Recapture database), human land-use patterns, vegetation cover, and bear harvest intensity. This dataset represents an unprecedented opportunity to rigorously determine how Wisconsin's bear population is distributed across the landscape during the summer growing season.
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These baits were placed in a spatial pattern that conforms to a rigorous systematic sampling design and bear use or non-use was recorded by volunteers according to standardized criteria. A key feature of the Mark Recapture estimate was the placement of roughly 3500 bear baits across the northern 2/3s of Wisconsin. Project Methods During the summer of 2006, the Wisconsin DNR, the University of Wisconsin, and the Wisconsin Bear Hunters Association have begun a 2-year effort at estimating the population size and spatial pattern of black bear populations in Wisconsin using Mark-Recapture methods.