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The Zoo's involvement in conservation and research projects extends across the U.S. with innovative partnerships from Government and Higher Education.
The purpose of the project was to determine what effect human recreational activities, such as bear viewing and fishing, have on brown bears. Although a few studies have been done in the past about the presence of humans around brown bears, the studies didn’t show specifically how the presence of humans affects bears’ nutritional ecology.
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