Susan G. Clark and Murray B. Rutherford (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226107400
- eISBN:
- 9780226107547
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226107547.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This book examines the problem of living sustainably with large carnivores (wolves, grizzly bears and mountain lions). The book includes case studies of practical experiences with large carnivore ...
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This book examines the problem of living sustainably with large carnivores (wolves, grizzly bears and mountain lions). The book includes case studies of practical experiences with large carnivore conservation in settings ranging from Arizona through Greater Yellowstone to Yukon, featuring several highly innovative and successful local initiatives. We use the interdisciplinary tools of the policy sciences to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of governance in each case and make practical recommendations for improvement. We draw lessons from the cases about how to reform governance and conservation so that people and large carnivores can survive on the landscape together for the long term. The case studies are followed by chapters that identify common themes, synthesize lessons, and analyze the problems of large carnivore conservation from a broader perspective.Less
This book examines the problem of living sustainably with large carnivores (wolves, grizzly bears and mountain lions). The book includes case studies of practical experiences with large carnivore conservation in settings ranging from Arizona through Greater Yellowstone to Yukon, featuring several highly innovative and successful local initiatives. We use the interdisciplinary tools of the policy sciences to analyze the strengths and weaknesses of governance in each case and make practical recommendations for improvement. We draw lessons from the cases about how to reform governance and conservation so that people and large carnivores can survive on the landscape together for the long term. The case studies are followed by chapters that identify common themes, synthesize lessons, and analyze the problems of large carnivore conservation from a broader perspective.
Seth M. Wilson, Gregory A. Neudecker, and James J. Jonkel
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226107400
- eISBN:
- 9780226107547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226107547.003.0006
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter describes how a rural agricultural community in the Blackfoot River watershed in Montana used collaborative decision making to reduce conflicts with grizzly bears. Through effective ...
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This chapter describes how a rural agricultural community in the Blackfoot River watershed in Montana used collaborative decision making to reduce conflicts with grizzly bears. Through effective communication, regular meetings, and partnerships, a host of on-the-ground projects were implemented through the Blackfoot Challenge, a grassroots watershed group, that significantly reduced conflicts with grizzly bears. The effort focused on changing people's practices and behaviors, not changing their value systems, and emphasized protecting human safety and livelihoods. The chapter explores the specific ways that collaborative decision making was carried out and offers numerous field-based lessons and recommendations that will be useful to natural resource managers in facilitating human-grizzly bear coexistence.Less
This chapter describes how a rural agricultural community in the Blackfoot River watershed in Montana used collaborative decision making to reduce conflicts with grizzly bears. Through effective communication, regular meetings, and partnerships, a host of on-the-ground projects were implemented through the Blackfoot Challenge, a grassroots watershed group, that significantly reduced conflicts with grizzly bears. The effort focused on changing people's practices and behaviors, not changing their value systems, and emphasized protecting human safety and livelihoods. The chapter explores the specific ways that collaborative decision making was carried out and offers numerous field-based lessons and recommendations that will be useful to natural resource managers in facilitating human-grizzly bear coexistence.
Douglas Clark, Linaya Workman, and D. Scott Slocombe
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226107400
- eISBN:
- 9780226107547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226107547.003.0004
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
The biological rationale for collaborative regional-scale grizzly bear conservation is now widely accepted. This approach was attempted in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon Territory, Canada, ...
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The biological rationale for collaborative regional-scale grizzly bear conservation is now widely accepted. This approach was attempted in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon Territory, Canada, but quickly collapsed. This chapter analyzes events in a regional conservation planning process between 2000 and 2005. This case involves competing myths and problem definitions, and on this specific issue a localist narrative successfully displaced a conservationist one, though a First Nations standpoint also played a significant role in shaping outcomes over time. Fundamentally, the conflicts experienced here weren't about bears, but reflected a broader struggle for self-determination and local independence from traditionally hierarchical, colonial government institutions in the Yukon. The emergence of community-based bear management in the town of Haines Junction since that failed planning process may be a continuation of those governance trends, and is consistent with the larger region's progress toward adaptive governance.Less
The biological rationale for collaborative regional-scale grizzly bear conservation is now widely accepted. This approach was attempted in Kluane National Park and Reserve, Yukon Territory, Canada, but quickly collapsed. This chapter analyzes events in a regional conservation planning process between 2000 and 2005. This case involves competing myths and problem definitions, and on this specific issue a localist narrative successfully displaced a conservationist one, though a First Nations standpoint also played a significant role in shaping outcomes over time. Fundamentally, the conflicts experienced here weren't about bears, but reflected a broader struggle for self-determination and local independence from traditionally hierarchical, colonial government institutions in the Yukon. The emergence of community-based bear management in the town of Haines Junction since that failed planning process may be a continuation of those governance trends, and is consistent with the larger region's progress toward adaptive governance.
J. Daniel Oppenheimer and Lauren Richie
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- September 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780226107400
- eISBN:
- 9780226107547
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226107547.003.0007
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter provides a case study of the Grizzly Bear Dialogue Group, a prototype for stakeholder engagement designed both to resolve conflict and to carry out joint decision making surrounding the ...
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This chapter provides a case study of the Grizzly Bear Dialogue Group, a prototype for stakeholder engagement designed both to resolve conflict and to carry out joint decision making surrounding the management of grizzly bears in Banff National Park. For years, participating stakeholders effectively practiced adaptive governance to clarify and sustain the common interest, but a series of events led to the problematic termination of the stakeholder prototype. This appraisal of the Grizzly Bear Dialogue Group's joint decision making provides several important lessons for creating, maintaining, and learning from community-based management processes.Less
This chapter provides a case study of the Grizzly Bear Dialogue Group, a prototype for stakeholder engagement designed both to resolve conflict and to carry out joint decision making surrounding the management of grizzly bears in Banff National Park. For years, participating stakeholders effectively practiced adaptive governance to clarify and sustain the common interest, but a series of events led to the problematic termination of the stakeholder prototype. This appraisal of the Grizzly Bear Dialogue Group's joint decision making provides several important lessons for creating, maintaining, and learning from community-based management processes.
Dale F. Lott
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233386
- eISBN:
- 9780520930742
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233386.003.0017
- Subject:
- Biology, Natural History and Field Guides
In parts of the plains, coyotes had to compete with one of the most formidable scavengers — the Great Bear. Once known as Ursus horribilis, it's now known as Ursus arctos. This includes the brown ...
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In parts of the plains, coyotes had to compete with one of the most formidable scavengers — the Great Bear. Once known as Ursus horribilis, it's now known as Ursus arctos. This includes the brown bear of Europe and Asia, the Kodiak bear of the north Pacific coast, and the grizzly bear of North America's mountains and plains. The great bear eats mostly vegetation, including a good bit of grass. But its simple stomach can't get much of the good out of grass, though it does better on fruit and roots. Its closest relative is the polar bear, which is carnivorous. Grizzlies are enthusiastic carnivores, but when it comes to taking on the large hoofed animals on the plains, they are not very efficient. The great bear's avid appetite for meat may explain part of the male bear's enthusiasm for killing cubs.Less
In parts of the plains, coyotes had to compete with one of the most formidable scavengers — the Great Bear. Once known as Ursus horribilis, it's now known as Ursus arctos. This includes the brown bear of Europe and Asia, the Kodiak bear of the north Pacific coast, and the grizzly bear of North America's mountains and plains. The great bear eats mostly vegetation, including a good bit of grass. But its simple stomach can't get much of the good out of grass, though it does better on fruit and roots. Its closest relative is the polar bear, which is carnivorous. Grizzlies are enthusiastic carnivores, but when it comes to taking on the large hoofed animals on the plains, they are not very efficient. The great bear's avid appetite for meat may explain part of the male bear's enthusiasm for killing cubs.
Daniel B. Botkin
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195168297
- eISBN:
- 9780199790050
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195168297.003.0004
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter looks at the experiences of the Lewis and Clark expedition in what is now the Pines Recreation Area in Valley County, Montana, near Fort Peck Lake. Topics covered include the ...
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This chapter looks at the experiences of the Lewis and Clark expedition in what is now the Pines Recreation Area in Valley County, Montana, near Fort Peck Lake. Topics covered include the expedition's dangerous encounters with grizzlies, lessons learnt from the grizzlies, the abundance and distribution of grizzlies prior to the European settlement of the American west, and knowledge about the abundance and density of grizzlies to the conservation of other species.Less
This chapter looks at the experiences of the Lewis and Clark expedition in what is now the Pines Recreation Area in Valley County, Montana, near Fort Peck Lake. Topics covered include the expedition's dangerous encounters with grizzlies, lessons learnt from the grizzlies, the abundance and distribution of grizzlies prior to the European settlement of the American west, and knowledge about the abundance and density of grizzlies to the conservation of other species.
Daniel B. Botkin
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780195162431
- eISBN:
- 9780199790043
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Discontinued
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195162431.003.0008
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology
This chapter describes the experiences and observations of Lewis and Clark as the expedition reached the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, just east of today's Montana-North Dakota ...
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This chapter describes the experiences and observations of Lewis and Clark as the expedition reached the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, just east of today's Montana-North Dakota border. Topics covered include the abundant vegetation and wildlife, Lewis and Clark as scientists, wolves and the rationales for saving endangered species, encounters with grizzlies, and near extinction of the bison.Less
This chapter describes the experiences and observations of Lewis and Clark as the expedition reached the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, just east of today's Montana-North Dakota border. Topics covered include the abundant vegetation and wildlife, Lewis and Clark as scientists, wolves and the rationales for saving endangered species, encounters with grizzlies, and near extinction of the bison.
Dale Lott
Jan van Wagtendonk and Kevin Shaffer (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2002
- Published Online:
- March 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780520233386
- eISBN:
- 9780520930742
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
- DOI:
- 10.1525/california/9780520233386.001.0001
- Subject:
- Biology, Natural History and Field Guides
This book combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. The book ...
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This book combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. The book relates what is known about this iconic animal's life in the wild and its troubled history with humans. The book takes us on a journey into the bison's past and shares a compelling vision for its future, offering along the way a valuable introduction to North American prairie ecology. The book acquaints us with the social life and physiology of the bison, sharing stories about its impressive physical prowess and fascinating relationships. Describing the entire grassland community in which the bison live, it talks about the wolves, pronghorn, prairie dogs, grizzly bears, and other animals and plants, detailing the interdependent relationships among these inhabitants of a lost landscape. The book also traces the long and dramatic relationship between the bison and Native Americans, and gives a surprising look at the history of the hide hunts that delivered the coup de grace to the already dwindling bison population in a few short years. This book gives us a peek at the rich and unique ways of life that evolved in the heart of America. The book also dismantles many of the myths we have created about these ways of life, and about the bison in particular, to reveal the animal itself: ruminating, reproducing, and rutting in its full glory. This portrait of the bison ultimately becomes a plea to conserve its wildness and an eloquent meditation on the importance of the wild in our lives.Less
This book combines the latest scientific information and one man's personal experience in an homage to one of the most magnificent animals to have roamed America's vast, vanished grasslands. The book relates what is known about this iconic animal's life in the wild and its troubled history with humans. The book takes us on a journey into the bison's past and shares a compelling vision for its future, offering along the way a valuable introduction to North American prairie ecology. The book acquaints us with the social life and physiology of the bison, sharing stories about its impressive physical prowess and fascinating relationships. Describing the entire grassland community in which the bison live, it talks about the wolves, pronghorn, prairie dogs, grizzly bears, and other animals and plants, detailing the interdependent relationships among these inhabitants of a lost landscape. The book also traces the long and dramatic relationship between the bison and Native Americans, and gives a surprising look at the history of the hide hunts that delivered the coup de grace to the already dwindling bison population in a few short years. This book gives us a peek at the rich and unique ways of life that evolved in the heart of America. The book also dismantles many of the myths we have created about these ways of life, and about the bison in particular, to reveal the animal itself: ruminating, reproducing, and rutting in its full glory. This portrait of the bison ultimately becomes a plea to conserve its wildness and an eloquent meditation on the importance of the wild in our lives.
Joel Berger
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- February 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780226043630
- eISBN:
- 9780226043647
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Chicago Press
- DOI:
- 10.7208/chicago/9780226043647.003.0009
- Subject:
- Biology, Animal Behavior / Behavioral Ecology
The Russian Far East is the northernmost home of the tiger. These specialized carnivores stride across white sands lining the Sea of Japan. They consume seal, and they live in deep snow where ...
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The Russian Far East is the northernmost home of the tiger. These specialized carnivores stride across white sands lining the Sea of Japan. They consume seal, and they live in deep snow where temperatures plummet to −40°F. In the Russian Far East, as throughout Europe, elk are known as red deer. In Russian they are called ilch or izubar. Large bruins with a dish-shaped face and a well-defined hump are grizzly bears to Canadians and Americans but brown bears to everyone else. In Russian, the word is medveeyet. Like elk and brown bears, moose, too, are Holarctic in distribution. The same species occurs from Mongolia and Manchuria to Europe and throughout boreal North America. In Europe and Scandinavia, moose are called “elk.” In Russia they are moose, the local word being los. It was the ilch (elk) and los (moose) that lured the author to the Sikhote–Alin Mountains, an area once hunted by the Chinese, by the Ainu of Japan, and more recently, by Dersu Uzala.Less
The Russian Far East is the northernmost home of the tiger. These specialized carnivores stride across white sands lining the Sea of Japan. They consume seal, and they live in deep snow where temperatures plummet to −40°F. In the Russian Far East, as throughout Europe, elk are known as red deer. In Russian they are called ilch or izubar. Large bruins with a dish-shaped face and a well-defined hump are grizzly bears to Canadians and Americans but brown bears to everyone else. In Russian, the word is medveeyet. Like elk and brown bears, moose, too, are Holarctic in distribution. The same species occurs from Mongolia and Manchuria to Europe and throughout boreal North America. In Europe and Scandinavia, moose are called “elk.” In Russia they are moose, the local word being los. It was the ilch (elk) and los (moose) that lured the author to the Sikhote–Alin Mountains, an area once hunted by the Chinese, by the Ainu of Japan, and more recently, by Dersu Uzala.
Emma Marris
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- December 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780198808978
- eISBN:
- 9780191846687
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198808978.003.0012
- Subject:
- Biology, Biodiversity / Conservation Biology, Ecology
This chapter begins with a viral video about a trophic cascade initiated by the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. It then challenges the narrative of that video. How strong is the ...
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This chapter begins with a viral video about a trophic cascade initiated by the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. It then challenges the narrative of that video. How strong is the evidence for the trophic cascade that has been claimed to exist in Yellowstone? A survey of the relevant literature suggests that the matter is far from settled. But the absence of a scientific consensus is not reflected in the popular press. Analysis of a random sample of newspaper articles about wolf reintroduction shows that a simplistic version of the scientific story is reported far more often than the more complex, but more accurate, tale of an unresolved hypothesis. A particular study on wolf-mediated effects on grizzly bears, via elk and berries, is examined in more depth. Ultimately, the chapter makes the case that the more nuanced story is not only more factually accurate, it also tells an essential truth about the nature of ecology.Less
This chapter begins with a viral video about a trophic cascade initiated by the return of wolves to Yellowstone National Park. It then challenges the narrative of that video. How strong is the evidence for the trophic cascade that has been claimed to exist in Yellowstone? A survey of the relevant literature suggests that the matter is far from settled. But the absence of a scientific consensus is not reflected in the popular press. Analysis of a random sample of newspaper articles about wolf reintroduction shows that a simplistic version of the scientific story is reported far more often than the more complex, but more accurate, tale of an unresolved hypothesis. A particular study on wolf-mediated effects on grizzly bears, via elk and berries, is examined in more depth. Ultimately, the chapter makes the case that the more nuanced story is not only more factually accurate, it also tells an essential truth about the nature of ecology.
