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Bader, Michael, and Paul Sieracki. Grizzly Bear Denning Habitat and Demographic Connectivity in Northern Idaho and Western Montana. Missoula, MT: Ecological Research Services, 2023.
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Bader M, P Sieracki. 2024. Natural Grizzly Bear Repopulation in the Greater Bitterroot Ecosystem. Technical Report 01-24. WildEarth Guardians, Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen Task Force. Missoula, MT. 22p.
Graves, Rose A., Matthew A. Williamson, R. Travis Belote, and Jodi S. Brandt. "Quantifying the Contribution of Conservation Easements to Large-Landscape Conservation." Biological Conservation, 2019.
Mattson, David. Efficacies & Effects of Sport Hunting Grizzlies. 2020. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.29611.67365
Newmark, William D., John M. Halley, Paul Beier, Samuel A. Cushman, Phoebe B. McNeally, and Michael E. Soulé. "Enhanced Regional Connectivity Between Western North American National Parks Will Increase Persistence of Mammal Species Diversity." Scientific Reports 13 (2023): Article 401. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-26428-z
Thompson, Peter R., John Paczkowski, Jesse Whittington, and Colleen Cassady St. Clair. "Integrating Human Trail Use in Montane Landscapes Reveals Larger Zones of Human Influence for Wary Carnivores." Journal of Applied Ecology, 2024. https://doi.org/10.1111/1365-2664.14837
Corradini, Andrea, Mark A. Haroldson, Francesca Cagnacci, Cecily M. Costello, Daniel D. Bjornlie, Daniel J. Thompson, Jeremy M. Nicholson, Kerry A. Gunther, Katharine R. Wilmot, and Frank T. van Manen. "Evidence for Density-Dependent Effects on Body Composition of a Large Omnivore in a Changing Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem." Global Change Biology, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16759.
Fowler, Nicholas L., Jerrold L. Belant, Guiming Wang, and Bruce D. Leopold. "Ecological Plasticity of Denning Chronology by American Black Bears and Brown Bears." Global Ecology and Conservation 18 (2019): e00656. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00656.
Luikart, Gordon, Nils Ryman, David A. Tallmon, Michael K. Schwartz, and Fred W. Allendorf. "Estimation of Census and Effective Population Sizes: The Increasing Usefulness of DNA-Based Approaches." Conservation Genetics 11, no. 2 (2010): 355–373. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10592-010-0050-7.
Mattson, David. The Grizzly Bear Promised Land: Past, Present & Future of Grizzly Bears in the Bitterroot, Clearwater, Salmon & Selway Country. 2021. https://doi.org/10.13140/RG.2.2.19083.87848.
Allendorf, Fred W., Lee H. Metzgar, Brian L. Horejsi, David J. Mattson, and Frank Lance Craighead. The Status of the Grizzly Bear and Conservation of Biological Diversity in the Northern Rocky Mountains: A Compendium of Expert Statements. Flathead-Lolo-Bitterroot Citizen Task Force, 2019.