Grizzly bear use of open, closed, and restricted forestry roads

• Published in: Canadian Journal of Forest Research
• Main Authors: Wielgus, Robert B, Vernier, Pierre R, Schivatcheva, Tina
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Canadian Science Publishing 2002
• Subjects: Ecology; Forestry; Global and Planetary Change; Parry; Nutt; Ursus arctos
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1139/x02-084; http://www.nrcresearchpress.com/doi/pdf/10.1139/x02-084

We investigated grizzly bear (Ursus arctos) selection of three road types in the northern United States and southern British Columbia from 1986 to 1991. We hypothesized that grizzly bears select against open (public use allowed), restricted (forestry use only), and closed roads (no public use allowe...