The BSGs North American Bears Expert Team was established in 2020, partially to deal with conservation issues on American black bears and grizzly/brown bears in North America, but also to share expertise on topics and techniques gained in North America with the rest of the world. Along those lines, members of this team have recorded a series of webinars. All of these webinars can be found here (or click on individual titles below).

Bear conservation:

• > History of grizzly bear recovery
• > Conserving small grizzly bear populations
• > Quantifying grizzly bear recovery in the Canadian South Selkirks

Bear management:

• NEW > Evaluating Grizzly Bear Management Areas in Yellowstone National Park
• > Could hunting over bait increase black bear population growth?
• > Bear management in Yellowstone National Park
• > Managing brown bears to benefit moose

Human–bear conflicts:

• > Karelian bear dogs in carnivore management
• > Hunting to reduce human–bear conflicts
• > Managing habituated bears
• > Community-based solutions for reducing human–bear conflicts
• > Pursuing coexistence through Bear Smart and population connectivity

Population monitoring/trend:

• NEW > Large-scale monitoring of Ontario's black bear population
• > Use of rub trees can for monitoring population trend
• > Grizzly bear population expansion in Yellowstone ecosystem
• > Designing projects using spatially-explicit capture–recapture models (SECR)

Ecological and demographic impacts:

• > Influence of human development on bear behavior and demography
• > Climate change and cascading impacts to brown bears

Corridors for conservation:

• > Movement corridors among populations of grizzly bears in western Montana                           (1st slide is missing on recording)

Field methods:

• > Long-term research on black bear denning ecology, Cascades, Washington

Webinar series of the North American Bears Expert Team of the Bear Specialist Group