Education programs for reducing American black bear-human conflict: Indicators of success?

Ursus

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 75-80

  Gore, Meredith L ^a   Knuth, Barbara A ^a   Curtis, Paul D ^a   Shanahan, James E ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

American black bear; Bear human conflict; Education; Evaluation; Performance indicators; Ursus americanus

Indexed keywords

URSUS AMERICANUS;

EID: 33646557036     PISSN: 15376176     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2192/1537-6176(2006)17[75:EPFRAB]2.0.CO;2     Document Type: Article

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