Effectiveness of GIS in assessinggrizzly
grizzly GRIZZLY BEAR HABITAT

In the Central Coast of British Columbia.
            SPATIAL ANALYSIS
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low risk boolean mce low
MCE ANALYSIS #1

Weighted Linear Combination biased towards Human influence
 Factors that were seen to negatively influence grizzly bear habitat such as  human settlement, human influence and roads were heavily
weighted in the analysis.   
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middle risk boolean
mce analysis   MCE ANALYSIS #2

Weighted Linear Combination Neutral
 This analysis attempted to adopt a more neutral position and to allow for factors to stand relatively evenly against one another.  A few differences were highlighted, such as the relative importance of human settlements over influence and the importance of salmon over all other factors.  
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mce high                                                                                                high risk boolean MCE ANALYSIS #3

Weighted Linear Combination biased towards Habitat
 This analysis weighted heavily the factors that were seen to have strong positive contributions to grizzly bear habitat such as salmon, land use
values and location of old forest.

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