The Foothills Research Institute’s Grizzly Bear Program, the Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre and the Scandinavian Brown Bear Research Project have formed a memorandum of understanding agreeing to initiate collaborative research efforts on brown (grizzly) bears in Alberta and Scandinavia, and share expertise, techniques and innovations developed to enhance management and conservation objectives within each location.
The participating research groups have been involved in long term research (11 years in Alberta and 25 years in Scandinavia) pertaining to brown (grizzly) bears in both Alberta and Scandinavia (Sweden and Norway), and have accumulated a great deal of new knowledge and expertise during this time. There now is a unique opportunity for these groups of internationally recognized scientists, from a wide range of disciplines, to work together to share knowledge, expertise, and experience conserving and managing brown (grizzly) bears in boreal forest and mountain ecosystems and to foster the exchange of skills, knowledge and expertise to advance each the program goals of each group and build upon the combined achievements.
For more information about the various topics being researched contact the research team:
Foothills Research Institute Contact:
– Gordon Stenhouse, Project Leader, Grizzly Bear Programt, Box 6330, Hinton, AB, CANADA T7V 1X7, Phone: 780-865-8388, Fax: 780-865-8331, Email: gstenhouse@foothillsri.ca
Canadian Cooperative Wildlife Health Centre Contact:
– Marc Cattet, CCWHC, Western College of Veterinary Medicine 52 Campus Drive, Saskatoon, SK S7N 5B4, (306) 966-2162, email marc.cattet@usask.ca
The Scandinavian Brown Bear Project Contact:
– Jon E. Swenson, Professor and Project Leader, Department of Ecology and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, Box 5003, NO-1432 Ås, Norway, (+47) 64 96 57 30 and 90 74 44 68, email jon.swenson@umb.no.