Hunting Diary Ep 6 - Big Water

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Wildlife biologist/scientist Mateen Hessami joins Mark and Curtis to scrutinize a new research paper that looks at whether the newly reinstated spring black bear hunt in Ontario has reduced human-bear conflict in the province. Mateen discusses key things that wildlife scientist looks for in setting up research studies as well as concepts such as confounding factors, before and after studies, length of time, change in human population and hypothesis testing. Matten discusses whether this research study provides a robust conclusion about bear hunting and human-bear conflict in Ontario. Other topics discussed include motivations of hunters for spring bear hunting, spatial overlap of bear hunters and human-bear conflict areas as well as the efficacy of hunting for reducing bear populations.

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