Michael Proctor - Grizzly bear conservation and protection
He is a co-founder of the Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project (in cooperation with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service) and works out of Kaslo, B.C. Beyond Canada, he has worked on international bear projects in Ecuador, Italy, and Mongolia.
Michael Proctor - Kootenay Conservation Program
Since that pivotal project, he’s led multiple large-scale grizzly bear surveys focused on the Purcell and Selkirk mountains; helped start a similar project on Spectacled bears in Ecuador; earned a PhD in Grizzly Bear Ecology from the University of Calgary; helped develop a multi-year research project on the Gobi bears in Mongolia that he ...
Michael Proctor: Grizzly bear aficionado - Yellowstone to Yukon ...
May 11, 2016 · As lead Canadian researcher with the Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project, Proctor has identified key linkage areas for grizzlies all along Highway 3 — a major barrier for wildlife movement across southern B.C. and Alberta — giving Y2Y and other groups an all-important scientific foundation for deciding where and what to conserve.
Grizzly Bear Connectivity Mapping in the Canada-U.S ... - Data Basin
Apr 9, 2015 · We sought to predict preferred linkage habitats for grizzly bears across settled valleys with major highways in the fragmented transborder region to improve prospects for bear movement among 5 small fragmented subpopulations.
lanche, burned, and riparian habitats contain a variety of grizzly bear food resources (McLellan and Hovey 1995, Mace et al. 1996, McLellan and Hovey 2001, Proctor et al. 2015). We used …
Reconnecting and Protecting Grizzlies | Basin Stories
Dec 24, 2019 · Since 2004, Kaslo scientist and independent researcher Michael Proctor has looked for ways to restore connectivity between these two populations and help recover the …
Maverick wildlife biologist talks East Kootenay grizzly bear …
Jun 10, 2019 · As head of the Trans-Border Grizzly Bear Project, Proctor has worked extensively with a team of international wildlife biologists and conservationists to recover fragmented grizzly bear populations in the south Selkirk and south Purcell mountain ranges.
About-BSG, IUCN SSC Bear Specialist Group
Mike is an independent Canadian bear research ecologist. He completed his PhD in grizzly bear ecology in 2003. He currently researches and implements conservation solutions for small threatened brown bear populations that span the Canada-US …
I, Michael Proctor, am a independent professional biologist that has been researching grizzly bears in the Purcell and Selkirk Mountains since 1995 and running the Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project (TBGBP) since 2004.
Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project | About Us
The Trans-border Grizzly Bear Project uses science to understand conservation challenges and to implement our researched solutions for grizzly bears in the Trans-border southern Selkirk and Purcell Mountains of British Columbia, Northwest Montana, and North Idaho.