I've been going up there the past couple years to harvest a bear. I haven't been successful though.
I'm really posting this for anybody going up there this weekend for the hunt.
For the first time they had a bear dog hunt and they killed 51 bear off the WMA. I personally didn't see a bear population up there that needed a slaughter hunt. I talked to game management up there and they said that the bear are killing the deer population so it's seems like they want to wipe the bear out and try to make it something that it won't never be. Considering I have a friend that live's next to it and he has killed 80 coyote's this year alone. If they wanted to thin the bear population down,they should have opened it up for the season for bear only instead of just a couple week's a season. There never has been a huge deer population up in that area that I know of. How do you expect to control any kind of game population on 25.000 acres by only allowing hunting for a couple weeks out of the year. They also said the majority of those bear killed were sows which will hurt the years to come. I also asked them how many of those sows that got killed had cubs. They didn't respond.
Needless to say I will be looking for a new place to bear hunt.
I hate to see them do a slaughter hunt like this. JMO
I'm really posting this for anybody going up there this weekend for the hunt.
For the first time they had a bear dog hunt and they killed 51 bear off the WMA. I personally didn't see a bear population up there that needed a slaughter hunt. I talked to game management up there and they said that the bear are killing the deer population so it's seems like they want to wipe the bear out and try to make it something that it won't never be. Considering I have a friend that live's next to it and he has killed 80 coyote's this year alone. If they wanted to thin the bear population down,they should have opened it up for the season for bear only instead of just a couple week's a season. There never has been a huge deer population up in that area that I know of. How do you expect to control any kind of game population on 25.000 acres by only allowing hunting for a couple weeks out of the year. They also said the majority of those bear killed were sows which will hurt the years to come. I also asked them how many of those sows that got killed had cubs. They didn't respond.
Needless to say I will be looking for a new place to bear hunt.
I hate to see them do a slaughter hunt like this. JMO