Malzahn invited FOX10 News out to see how she sets a bear trap.
“We’re looking at the reproductive ecology of black bears down here,” said Malzahn. “Compared to the population up in the Northeast, our cubs aren’t surviving into adulthood. We’re trying to figure out why. To do that, I need to collar adult females with GPS collars so that I can go into the den in the springtime and collar the cubs as well so we can then track their survival.”
“Right now we’re only focusing on this area because we know there’s females and we know there’s cubs,” she explained. “I work with all private landowners down here which is really great. We’re on one of the private landowner’s sites right now. I’ve caught 5 individual bears so far but we’ve seen at least 6 bears come to this trap.”
Once the bear is trapped, Malzahn says the bear is safely sedated before being outfitted with a GPS collar.”The collar sends up points every couple of hours, then I can download the GPS points remotely and I can figure out where they are on the landscape, what habitat they’re using.”“One of my favorite things that happened about this year is I had triplets. Last year, I went to two dens and they were both single. I was really excited to have more cubs this year,” she said.
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