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wildlife biologists, will help wildlife managers to determine birth and death rates and population density of the state’s black bears, describe distribution and habitat use patterns, and , develop a monitoring system that will aid in keeping track of annual population trends. “So far,” said Dr. Michael R. Vaughan, a wildlife scientist for the National Biological Service, Department of the Interior, and professor of wildlife at Virginia Tech, “the study has been highly successful.”

Graduate students and Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries personnel capture and tag bears with radio-transmitters, following the bears to their winter dens. “Because we had so many tree

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