Human Dimensions of Grizzly Bears

This project was completed in cooperation with Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks.

Reports

2020 Perceptions About and Management of Grizzly Bears (.pdf)

Grizzly Bear Survey (.pdf)

Summary of Research (.pdf)

Publications

Nesbitt, H. K., Metcalf, A. L., Metcalf, E. C., Costello, C. M., Roberts, L. L., Lewis, M. S., & Gude, J. A. (2023). Human dimensions of grizzly bear conservation: The social factors underlying satisfaction and coexistence beliefs in Montana, USA. Conservation Science and Practice5(3), e12885.

Birdsong, M., Metcalf, A. L., Metcalf, E. C., Nesbitt, H. K., & Gude, J. A, (In press). The influence of social identity on attitudes toward wildlife. Conservation Biology.

Nesbitt, H. K., Metcalf, A. L., Lubeck, A. A., Metcalf, E. C., Beckman, C., Smith, A. P., & Cummins, T. M. (2021). Collective factors reinforce individual contributions to humanwildlife coexistence. The Journal of wildlife management85(6), 1280-1295.

Brenner, L. J., & Metcalf, E. C. (2020). Beyond the tolerance/intolerance dichotomy: incorporating attitudes and acceptability into a robust definition of social tolerance of wildlife. Human Dimensions of Wildlife25(3), 259-267.

Metcalf, A. L., Metcalf, E. C., Brenner, L., Nesbitt, H. K., Phelan, C. N., Gude, J. A. (In revisions). The wildlife attitude-acceptability framework’s potential to inform human dimensions of wildlife science and practice. Human Dimensions of Wildlife