Definitions 



Nuisance bear : Any grizzly bear involved in bear/human conflicts resulting in agency 

 management activities. 



Unacceptable Aggression : Grizzly bear behavior that includes human injury or death when 

 unprovoked by surprise, food, etc., approaching humans or human use areas, such as camps, in 

 an aggressive way, or aggressive behavior when the bear is also unprovoked by self-defense, 

 defense of cubs, defense of foods, or in a surprise encounter. 



Natural Ag.gression : Defense of young, food, during a surprise encounter, or self-defense. 



Food-Conditioned : A bear that has received a significant reward of non-natural foods such as 

 garbage, camp food, pet food, or processed livestock food and persistently seeks those foods. 



Habituated : When a bear does not display avoidance behavior around humans or in human use 

 areas such as camps, residential areas, or along roads. 



Relocation : The capture and movement of a bear involved in a conflict with humans or their 

 property by management authorities to a remote area away from the conflict site. 



Repeat Offense : The involvement of a bear that has been previously relocated in a nuisance 

 situation or continues to repeat a behavior that constituted a human/bear conflict. 



Removal : The capture and placement of a bear in an authorized public zoological or research 

 facility or destruction of the bear. Removal can also involve killing the bear through active 

 measures in the wild when it is not otherwise possible to capture the bear. 



Depredation : Damage to any property including agricultural products. 



Criteria for Nuisance Grizzly Bear Determination and Control Outside the PCA 



1 . FWP, or its authorized representative, will investigate reported human-grizzly bear 

 conflicts as soon as practical. FWP will initiate consultation with the affected parties, or 

 their representatives, within 12 hours of the initial investigation either by telephone or in 

 person, if possible. Property owners will be advised of the process to secure 

 compensation if provided by private interests. FWP will also attempt to notify potentially 

 affected neighbors, livestock producers, permittees, etc., of the nuisance and any ongoing 

 risks if possible. 



2. Bears displaying unacceptable aggression or considered a threat to human safety, will be 

 removed from the population as quickly as possible. 



3. Bears displaying natural defensive behavior will be removed when, in the judgment of 

 FWP, circumstances warrant removal and non-lethal methods are not feasible or 

 practical. 



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