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Auburn University Receives $1.1 Million Grant To Study Bear Cub Survival In Alabama

| March 11, 2019 @ 5:00 am

By Teri Greene – Auburn University

A project that examines the denning behavior of Alabama’s black bear population and its impact on reproduction and cub survival has received a $1.1 million grant from the Alabama Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

The grant provides new funding for a five-year study on bears in Alabama directed by Todd Steury, associate professor of wildlife ecology in the School of Forestry and Wildlife Services at Auburn University.

Steury said the new grant will aid his research in three critical ways.

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