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)
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 Practice, 5(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 human‐wildlife coexistence. The Journal of wildlife management, 85(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 Wildlife, 25(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