Still Photographs at Hair Traps

Noninvasive Studies

Use of remote camera systems to investigate efficiency of DNA-based sampling methods

These photographs were taken between 1998 and 2007 at hair traps in or near Glacier National Park in northwest Montana.

grizzly bear in a bear hair trap Grizzly bear investigating scent lure at bear hair trap in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 6 June 1998, 8:29am.
grizzly bear shaking rain off in a bear hair trap Grizzly bear shaking off the rain while inside a barbed wire bear hair trap (note hair on wire) in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 10:53am.
grizzly bear rubbing in bear hair trap lure pile Grizzly bear rubbing the scent lure station inside a bear hair trap (note hair on wire) in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 10:54am.
grizzly bear rolling in a bear hair trap lure pile Grizzly bear rolling on back in scent lure at bear hair trap in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 10:58am.
grizzly bear next to a bear hair trap Grizzly bear steps over the barbed wire at a bear hair trap in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by M. Maples/P. Metzgar, 31 July 1998, 11:00am.
grizzly bear in a bear hair trap Grizzly bear arriving at hair trap in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Eric Penn. September 23, 2000, 5:10pm.
grizzly bear in a bear hair trap Grizzly bear investigating hair trap in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Eric Penn. September 23, 2000, 5:41pm.
grizzly bear in a bear hair trap Same grizzly bear in hair trap in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Greater Glacier Bear DNA Project remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Eric Penn. September 23, 2000, 5:55pm.
black bear pawing at a bear hair trap lure pile Black bear pawing at lure pile in the center of a hair trap located in Glacier National Park, MT. USGS Northern Divide Bear Project remote camera photograph by Jeff Stetz and Amy Macleod. June 16, 2007.

 

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