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Posted by BRWNBR on Jan 31 2006
"Proposed regulation changes would allow hunting of female brown bears with dependent yearlings, baiting of brown bears, hunting bears from motorized vehicles, using snares or traps to take bears, smoking bears from dens, and sale of bear parts."....
I really belive there are very very few hunters in alaska who support any of these methods. i myself find them a tad depressing, no way would i trap, bait, smoke or shoot a sow with cubs. I still belive in sport hunting/fair chase and a hunters resposibility to hold to ethics. I do not however have a problem if someone wants to sell their bear. they sell there moose, caribou, deer, sheep, wolf, wovlerine, porcupide and just abotu everything else you can legally harvest. None of those animals have be devalued as a natural resource.
Liberlizing bear limits and seaons won't change much at all, look at unit 13, and now unit 16, the effects are slim. A bear is the only natural predator who can survie WITHOUT meat, with berries and grasses they can live. without moose the grizzly will still be there.
So as far as being able to restrict the number of bears in a given area...not gonna happen.
Even with longer seasons and generous bag limits, not many resident moose or caibou hunters want to stop long enought to mess with a bear on their hunt. i know many hunters who just don't want to mess with shooting a bear...whats the point. you can't do anything with it and it just costs you money?! there needs to be an incentive to harvesting bears, currently there is none. NOw i'm not promoting bounties on bears or anything like there, but if BOG/ADFG wants bear harvests to increase, they gotta give us an excuse to shoot more than oone bear, or spend 1500 bucks to fly somewhere for a bear every year or whatever. can't eat it, can't sell it, gotta tan it....not really a winning situation.
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