You are all invited to the RDRN November Monthly Meeting Speaker Series

Speaker: Sandra MacDougall

Topic: Recolonizing Black Bears in the Beaver Hills Biosphere

When: November 28, 2024 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

Where: Held at the Kerry Wood Nature Centre, 6300 45 Ave, Red Deer, AB T4N 3M4, in the Theatre room.

Over the past several years, the black bear population has been steadily increasing in Elk Island National Park and the surrounding Beaver Hills Biosphere. Bears were once a common resident of the area and are now returning to their previously occupied landscapes which are now highly modified. Sandra will summarize her study about the feeding ecology of this bear population and will offer considerations for human-wildlife coexistence.

Sandra MacDougall has been a biology instructor at Red Deer Polytechnic since 1995. She worked on grizzly and black bear populations in Canada’s north for over two decades, conducted a three-year grizzly bear food habit, habitat use and human-bear interactions research study in Nahanni National Park Reserve, and has collaborated with Parks Canada and the US National Parks Service to conduct field hazard assessments and analyze human-bear conflicts in other northern parks.

All are welcome, you do not have to be a RDRN member to attend.