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Curbing the Nuisance Bear's Garbage Appetite
Date of this Version
Fall 2017
Document Type
Article
Citation
Human–Wildlife Interactions (Fall 2017) 11(2): article 13
doi: 10.26077/377c-m384
Special topic: Cosmopolitan coyotes
Abstract
Since the early 1900s, the human population in the United States has more than tripled. Likewise, human interactions with wildlife have also increased exponentially (Conover 1995). Within the range of the American black bear (Ursus americanus), wildlife officials and land managers are often called upon to deal with nuisance bears. The Fall 2008 issue of Human–Wildlife Conflicts (now Human–Wildlife Interactions) contained several insightful manuscripts regarding the management of nuisance bears.