Stewart W. Breck

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors tested the ability of anti-wolf barriers made of flags hanging from ropes to impede wolf access to food and livestock and found that barriers prevented captive wolves (n = 9) from accessing food for up to 28 hours and allowed daily separation of wolves to administer contraceptive pills to a female wolf.

TL;DR: This work used a system where human-black bear conflicts were common, to experimentally test the efficacy of education and enforcement in altering human behavior to better secure attractants (garbage) from bears, and demonstrated the value of gathering evidence before and after implementing conservation actions.

TL;DR: It is suggested that bear use of urban areas is reversible and fluctuates with the availability of natural food resources, and that removal of urban individuals in times of food failures has the potential to negatively affect bear populations.

TL;DR: Considering that bear–human conflicts in Colorado increased over time and will likely continue to increase, it is suggested wildlife managers improve data collection by obtaining detailed location data, categorizing conflict types uniformly, and applying conflict regulations consistently to strengthen inference of similar analyses.

TL;DR: In this article, the adaptations of a large carnivore to benefits and risks associated with human development were examined in three systems in the western United States, and the authors found that black bears appear to use development largely for food subsidy, suggesting that conflicts with bears, and potentially other large carnivores, will increase when the physiological demand for resources outweighs risks from human activity.