Workshop Topics and Agenda

The 20th EBBW Organizing Committee would like to thank to all the attendees, moderators and presenters for making the 20th EBBW a success!

The 20th EBBW Program can be downloaded HERE.

Below you can download the presentations and posters that were presented at the 20th EBBW.

Oral Presentations

Monday Sessions:

Tribute to John Collins (Presenter Gordon Warburton/NCWRC)
Summary of State/Province Status Reports (Presenter Karen Noyce/MNDNR)
North America Bear Range Mapping Project (Presenter Brian Scheick/FLFWC)
State Survey on Population Modeling (Presenter Joe Folta/NCSU)
Bear Population Estimation in Michigan (Presenter Dwayne Etter/MIDNR)
Enhancements to Downing Population Reconstruction (Presenter Michelle Klopfer/Virginia Tech)
Black Bear Management in Maine (Presenter Jennifer Vashon/MDIF&W)
Extrapolating Recovery Curves to Reconstruct Populations (Presenter Karen Noyce/MNDNR)
Integrated Population Modeling of Black Bears in Minnesota (Presenter John Fieberg/MNDNR)

Fieberg J.R., Shertzer K.W., Conn P.B., Noyce K.V., and D.L. Garshelis. 2010. Integrated Population Modeling of Black Bears in Minnesota: Implications for Monitoring and Management. PLoS One 5(8): e12114.doi:10.1371/journal.pone .0012114

Tuesday Sessions:

Program Riskman: Stochastic and Deterministic Population Modeling (Presenter Eric Howe/ONMNR)

Link to downloading Program Riskman: http://riskman.nrdpfc.ca

Population Monitoring of West Virginia Black Bears (Presenter Chris Ryan/WVDNR)
Incorporating Public Values in Bear Management Planning (Presenter Dave Kocka/VDGIF)
Human Dimensions and Bear Management (Presenter Dain Palmer/NCWRC)
Estimating bear populations in absence of harvest data (Presenters Steven Dobey/KDFWR, Dave Telesco/FLFWC, and Dr. Joe Clark/USGS)
Highways and Bears: Update on research and recommendations (Presenters Dr. Michael Vaughan/USGS and Dr. Frank Van Manen/USGS)

Examples of wildlife underpasses

Regional Data Sharing:

Southern Appalachian Black Bear Study Group (Presenter Gordon Warburton)
Northeast Black Bear Technical Committee (Presenter Jeremy Hurst/NYSDEC)

Wednesday Session:

Black Bears and Wind Energy in Vermont (Presenter Forrest Hammond/VTFW)
Black Bear Management in Eastern North Carolina (Presenter Darren Miller/Weyerhaeuser)
Future of Oak Regeneration and Challenges to Managing Oak Forests (Presenter Dean Simon/NCWRC)
Effect of Variable Mast Production on Human-Black Bear Conflicts in the Adirondack Park of New York State (Presenter Courtney R. LaMere/SUNY)
Using Stable Isotopes to Assess Longitudinal Diet Patterns of American Black Bears in GSMNP (Presenter Jennapher Teunissen Van Manen/UT)
Estimating population parameters of the Louisiana black bear in the Upper Atchafalaya River Basin (Presenter Carrie Lowe/UT)

Posters Presentations (in alphabetical order by author)

Understanding Black Bears: New and Free Teacher’s Kit (Presenter Dan Bertalan)
A Landscape-Scale Approach for Modeling Habitat Suitability for the Louisiana Black Bear (Ursus americanus luteolus) in East Texas (Presenter Dan Kaminski)
Evaluation of Aversive Conditioning Using Satellite Collars on Black Bears in New Jersey (Presenter Michael Madonia)
Evaluation of the Genetic Diversity and Paternity of New Jersey and Pennsylvania Black Bears using Eight Polymorphic Microsatellite Loci (Presenter Teresa Ombrello)
A Proposal to Develop Single Nucleotide Polymorphism Markers for Black Bears (Presenter Emily Puckett)
Colonization of American Black Bears in Mississippi (Presenter Stephanie Simek)
Florida’s Contest to Make Wildlife Feeders More Bear-Resistant (Presenter Dave Telesco)
Multi-scale Den-Site Selection by American Black Bears in Mississippi (Presenter Brittany Waller)
Cognition vs. Context: How Important are Bears in Decisions of Management Action Acceptability? (Presenter Ryan Zajac)

Workshop Proceedings

Proceedings of the 20th EBBW will be published and will be available electronically on this website. Registered attendees will receive a printed copy of the 20th EBBW proceedings.