Grizzly-PAW: Grizzly Population Assessment in yelloWhead: Integrated approaches toward conserving Grizzly Bears on a human-dominated landscape of Western Alberta.

北美西北部是世界上仅存的灰熊（熊）的家园。在艾伯塔省，灰熊被认为是一种受威胁的物种，因此在保护策略方面进行了大量的研究，为该地区的政策制定者和管理活动提供信息。从管理的角度来看，目前的人口水平以及人为景观变化和人类活动在过去和未来如何影响阿尔伯塔省的灰熊，存在很多不确定性。2004年，人们在黄头熊保护区进行了广泛的研究，并在这里的省级土地上进行了首次灰熊种群单位调查，估计其种群数量为42只，低于之前的预期。由于该地区持续的工业和人类活动，包括森林采伐、石油和天然气开发和勘探、煤炭开采和扩张，该地区一直是灰熊研究的重点。我们的行业合作伙伴希望更好地了解道路密度和景观条件的变化如何改变该地区灰熊的栖息地选择，健康和死亡率，以制定长期保护策略和物种目标。

Grizzly-PAW: Grizzly Population Assessment in yelloWhead**Northwest North America is home to the world's remaining grizzly bears (Ursus arctos). Grizzly bears are considered a threatened species in Alberta and as a result a considerable amount of research has taken place on conservation strategies to inform policy makers and management activities in the region. From a management perspective there is much uncertainty about current population levels and how anthropogenic landscape change and human activities have affected grizzly bears in Alberta in the past and into the future. Extensive research has been conducted in the Yellowhead BMA with the first grizzly bear population unit inventory undertaken on provincial lands here in 2004 with the population estimated at 42 bears, lower than previously thought. The area continues to be a key focus of grizzly bear research due to its ongoing industrial and human activity including forest harvesting, oil and gas development and exploration, and coal mining and expansions. Our industry partners wish to better understand how changes in road density and landscape conditions are changing the habitat selection, health and mortality of grizzly bears in the region towards development of long term conservations strategies and target for the species.