Reducing Human-Caused Black and Grizzly Bear Mortality Along Roadside Corridors in Yellowstone National Park

For many years black bears (Ursus americanus) and grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) that frequented roadside corridors in Yellowstone National Park (YNP) were captured and translocated, removed, or hazed away from habitat adjacent to park roads due to concern for human safety. This practice reduced the overall amount of habitat available to bears in the park and increased human-caused bear mortality. In recent years, YNP has put less emphasis on management of roadside bears and more emphasis on managing people in roadside corridors frequented by bears. The park has successfully used managing of tourists at bear-jams (bear-sitting), no stopping zones, temporary area closures, fencing, vegetation screening, and baiting bears away from roadsides to reduce the need to haze, capture, move, or destroy bears that frequent roadside corridors. Use of these techniques has increased the overall amount of habitat in YNP available for use by bears and reduced the number of human-caused mortalities of black and grizzly bears occurring in the park.

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• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract used with permission from the International Conference on Ecology and Transportation, organized by the Center for Transportation and the Environment, Institute for Transportation Research and Education, North Carolina State University. Alternate title: Reducing Human-Caused Grizzly and Black Bear Mortality Along Roadside Corridors in Yellowstone National Park.
• Corporate Authors:

  Florida Department of Transportation

  Haydon Burns Building, 605 Suwanee Street
  Tallahassee, FL  United States  32301
• Authors:
  • Gunther, Kerry A
  • Biel, Mark J
• Conference:
  • Third International Conference on Wildlife Ecology and Transportation
  • Location: Missoula Montana
  • Date: 1999-9-13 to 1999-9-16
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: References;
• Pagination: 3p
• Monograph Title: PROCEEDINGS OF THE THIRD INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON WILDLIFE ECOLOGY AND TRANSPORTATION (ICOWET 1999)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Habitat (Ecology); Human beings; National parks; Roadside fauna; Transportation corridors; Wildlife; Wildlife crossings
• Uncontrolled Terms: Grizzly bears
• Geographic Terms: Yellowstone National Park
• Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; I15: Environment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01584177
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Dec 29 2015 9:53AM