Chapter 7: GIS Progress Report
Figure 2: Bear Management Areas (BMA) 3 and 4 and the bear location data available for this area. The health metrics from these samples were matched to environmental conditions experienced by the animal prior to its capture. The portion of the landscape occupied by a bear is called its home range, defined as “…that area traversed by the individual in its normal activities of food gathering, mating, and caring for young.” (Burt, 1943). Using ArcView 3.2 Animal Movement extension, we generated 128 annual 95% kernel home ranges from over 55,000 GPS locations collected from these bears. The 95% kernel is a contour on a point density surface within which a point has a 95% probability of occurrence (Figure 3).
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