Scholars Named in Program to Expand Research in Parks

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Ramona Maraj has plenty of "war stories" from her master's fieldwork on songbirds of Vancouver Island. There was the time a curious young black bear brushed against her, and once, another bear took a night-time breather by sitting on her tent while she slept. Ironically, now that she is conducting research on grizzly bears in Canada's Yukon Territory, bear encounters have been rare. "You try not to harass the bears while you're studying them," she says.