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SUMMARY:Public Talk:  Bison
DESCRIPTION:In association with the ACTWS conference in Camrose\, AB\, we are hosting a public talk on bison. Join us for an evening of two interesting presentations by Bill Snow and Wes Olson. Bill Snow will be presenting a talk and a short film on the cultural perspective on the bison reintroduction in Banff National Park. Wes Olson will be presenting on the ecological buffalo: following the trail of a keystone species. \n  \nCultural Perspective on the Bison Reintroduction \nThe Bison Reintroduction in Banff National Park\, represents over 140 years exclusion of Bison in mountain landscapes. While there are many environmental benefits to having Bison on landscapes\, there are also cultural impacts to the Bison Reintroduction project. Bill Snow\, a Consultation Manager\, will cover the cultural and ceremonies that have been conducted in relation to the Bison Reintroduction since 2015\, and will discuss the historical and current importance that Bison have in Stoney Nakoda culture. A short film of place names in the Canmore and Banff area will also include the scenery of the Bison herd at Stoney Indian Park\, on the Stoney Indian Reserve. \nAbout the speaker: \nBill Snow (Stoney Nakoda / Yuma Quechan) is a Consultation Manager with Stoney Tribal Administration\, as well as a Director at Large for the Canadian Wildlife Federation. Bill has coordinated ceremonies for the Bison Reintroduction since 2014\, and will be conducting a cultural study on the Bison Reintroduction area in 2020\, as part of the Canadian Mountain Network initiative. Bill Snow is a member of the Wesley First Nation\, of the Stoney Nakoda Nation\, as well as a Dual Citizen of Canada / United States of America. \n \n  \nThe Ecological Buffalo: Following the trail of a keystone species \nFor more than 130\,000years bison have roamed the ecosystems of North America\, and while doing so\, have influenced the lives of every other species they shared space and time with. This presentation looks at some of the intricate\, and often unexpected relationships bison have with these species across their former range\, with an emphasis on the northern mixed-grass prairie. Reintroducing bison populations to areas of their former historic range re-establishes that relationships and improves ecological diversity. \nAbout the speaker: \nWes Olson was raised in the rugged foothills of Alberta’s Rocky Mountains. There\, on family camping\, hunting and fishing trips he began a life-long association with wild places and wildlife that live in them. Following graduation from college Wes worked for several years as a Wildlife Technician for the Yukon Government\, and in 1981\, began a career with Parks Canada as a National Park Warden in Banff\, and later in Waterton Lakes\, Elk Island\, Prince Albert and Grasslands National Park in southern Saskatchewan. For over two decades Wes managed the plains and wood bison populations in Elk Island National Park\, and participated in the translocation and establishment of almost every free-roaming plains and wood bison population in Canada. Wes retired in 2012 and rather than stop working with bison\, established his own bison consulting company and continues to work in the field of bison conservation. \nWes’s passion for bison spills over into his creative side and he and his wife Johane have written the books\, “Portraits of the Bison; An Illustrated Guide to Bison Society”\, and “A Field Guide to Plains Bison.” These captivating books take the reader through bison society with rich illustrations\, photographs and descriptive text.
URL:https://www.actws.ca/event/public-talk-bison/
LOCATION:norsemen inn\, camrose\, 6505 48th Ave\, Camrose\, Alberta\, Canada
CATEGORIES:Conference,Public Talk
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SUMMARY:PUBLIC TALK: Colleen Cassady St. Clair
DESCRIPTION:Attractants\, adaptation\, and learning in bear-train collisions\n\n\nColleen Cassady St. Clair is a Professor of Biological Sciences at the University of Alberta. She and her students study the way wildlife use and move through human-dominated landscapes\, which frequently involve human-wildlife conflict. They seek novel solutions to those problems by combining ideas and methods from animal behaviour\, wildlife management\, and conservation biology. Recent projects address coexistence between people and coyotes in urban areas\, train strikes on grizzly bears\, and bird mortality at industrial sites.\n\nRoads and railways create foraging and travel opportunities that attract wildlife\, as well as risk of mortality from collisions.  Over the past two decades\, train strikes appeared to threaten a vulnerable population of grizzly bears (Ursus arctos) in Banff National Park resulting in the Joint Initiative for Grizzly Bear Conservation by Canadian Pacific and Parks Canada.  My team at UofA addressed its goals\, to identify the root causes of this mortality and recommend potential mitigation\, with core contributions by Jonathan Backs\, Alyssa Friesen\, Aditya Gangadharan\, Jack Hopkins\, Patrick Gilhooly\, Maureen Murray\, Scott Nielsen\, Sonya Pollock\, and Julia Put.  We measured forage opportunities associated with the rail\, monitored habitat and rail use of bears fitted with GPS collars\, and examined spatial and temporal correlates of past mortality. We found that the rail generates substantial food attractants as well as mortality of many species. Rail use by bears was highly variable among individuals and appeared to have diverse motivations\, but did not predict sites of past mortality.  For bears\, rail strikes may sometimes result from inadequate or maladaptive learning that might be mitigated with warning devices similar to those employed on railways for people. We support existing mitigation to minimize rail-side attractants and enhance alternative travel routes\, but also emphasize the role of animal learning to reduce collision risk. This approach could increase the speed and reduce the costs of mitigation for railways around the world\, relative to conventional mitigation used for roads based on exclusion fencing and crossing structures.
URL:https://www.actws.ca/event/public-talk-colleen-cassady-st-clair/
LOCATION:Canmore Opera House\, 400 Spring Creek Dr.\, Canmore\, AB\, Canada
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