“…However, further inference about the effects of specific biological and ecological processes that shape SGS is often limited because sampling is typically conducted at a single point in time (Goetze, Andrews, Peijnenburg, Portner, & Norton, 2015). These “snapshots” of data only measure populations in their current state (Anderson et al., 2010; Martensen, Saura, & Fortin, 2017; Schwartz, Luikart, & Waples, 2007). Therefore, inferences can be problematic when studying long‐lived and iteroparous species such as black bears ( Ursus americanus ) that are sensitive to landscape features (i.e., land cover) that are expected to undergo future modification (Cushman, McKelvey, Hayden, & Schwartz, 2006; Cushman, Wasserman, Landguth, & Shirk, 2013).…”