Final: Grizzly bears: Canaries in the wildlife management coalmine

Question 1

Non-Invasive approach for Research

• What does it use?
• What does it recieve?

Answer 1

• uses barb-wire corral and non reward bait.

- gives genetic information, dietary information, hormones.

Question 2

What did Jess

Housty say about medicine?

Answer 2

“The medicine is in the intention”

Question 3

Different Ways to View Bears?

Answer 3

• Wonder/awe
• Relatives, part of self
• Trophies

Question 4

When did Bears begin on islands?

- How did they gather the information? 3

Answer 4

Moving onto islands in 1990s.

- Gathered Indigenous knowledge, genetic data, camera data

Question 5

3 potential explanations for Bear-Human Conflict according to artelle?

What about BC ministry of environment? 1

Answer 5

• Regional population Saturation Hypothesis.
• Problem Individual Hypothesis.
• Food Supply Hypothesis.

BC ministry of Environment: Ecological Mismatch

Question 6

What does the Nuxalk Bear Safe program deal with?

Answer 6

Deals with attractants, electric fencing, Nuxalk Radio, replacing salmon.

Question 7

Heilksuk Polygons
- What are they used for?
What are they based on?

Criticism?

Answer 7

Used for protection.

Based mainly on food supplies.

Criticized for being too small, not accounting for connectivity and overall ecological health.
No on the ground information on actual bears.

Question 8

What is HIRMD?

What does it do?

Answer 8

HIRMD: Heiltsuk Integrated Resource Management Department

Combines: Genetic movement with interview data to create Heilsuk polygons to address the shortcomings.

Question 9

What has the Heilsuk polygons resulted in?

Answer 9

• incremental increases in provincially-sanctioned protection.
• HIRMD uses these direct interactions with Industry, determining where cutblocks can/cannot go.
• Province is out of equation.

Question 10

Science of hunt
What is it based on?
Whats the problem?

Answer 10

Science based
- Artelle confronted claim (2013)

• Widespread overkills and risks to management
• showed mathematical ways to reduce risk by buffering against uncertainty.

Question 11

Role of Science?

Answer 11

Science is a tool that can be used to understand how the world works.

• Science cannot tell us how the world SHOULD work.

Question 12

What do bear examples show?

Answer 12

• present shortcomings in accurate ‘western’ management
• shows that other ways of interacting with environment exist.

Different approaches and outcomes correspond with different worldviews; also differ in how well values are understood and articulated.

Question 13

Values-led management

What does it guide?

Answer 13

Approach to wildlife, guides:

• Objective and practices which influence:
• Policies