Specifications include, but are not limited to: Mix of spruce/fir forest and upland hardwoods (beech, maple, ash, aspen) Available potential foods: beechnuts, beaked hazelnut, raspberries, cherry, mountain ash berries, grass, forbes, and colonial insects Low deer densities, high moose densities Land use – forest products Human development –low (seasonal camps, dirt logging roads with public access) Bears have little access to other anthropogenic foods other than bait Central study area (Northwest of Bangor, Maine) Variable snow conditions Mix of forest, forested wetlands and bogs, and agriculture (corn, livestock) Expansive lowlands Available potential foods: raspberries and blackberries, beaked hazelnut, apples, carcass dumps, bird seed, garbage High deer densities, low moose densities Land use – forest products and agriculture (continued next page) Human development – rural Road structure- paved state-maintained roadways and dirt logging roads (some gated) Bears have access to other (non-bait) anthropogenic foods associated with rural areas