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When the Fish and Game did a project years ago on Macomb Plateau where the F&G was worried about the large numbers of Predators (bears/wolves) that were destroying the Macomb Caribou population in that herd and they transported dead animals, winter kill livestock, moose road kills and airlifted them with the Armys' help(helicopters) to the top of Macomb Plateau during the spring calving season to see if they provided the predators with another food source during spring calving they might not prey on the calves so heavily. Well from what I am told the mountain of rotten carcases did a very good job of drawing predators however no one was there to thin the herd if you know what I mean. I dont see how something like this couldn't be done and then do a draw or registration for people accessing the baited area and get after it. That seems like a lot more effective method to thin the population than what they have been trying, and trying to encourage people to kill them with a monetary incentive (selling hides) is ridiculous. There is plenty of road access to the units that have an excess of bears but you have to hunt them by enticing their stomachs thats why they are so much easier to harvest on the coastal areas, where the fish are the bears are. Give me permission to pick up a couple hundred dead salmon in the fall that are rotting on the side of interior rivers and freeze them over the winter and distribute them to specific areas in the spring and hunt over them and you'll get bears thinned. I'll get plenty of help too! Its not rocket science. You just have to bend the rules of ethics a little if the cause is a true concern. I also know of several under the table missions that have been executed by the F&G over the years to control predation and they work. But like anything else god forbid the animal rights groups were to find out because they know so much more than the F&G biologist.

Message Thread:

• Selling Bear Hides B_M Jan 31 2006
  • Some Facts: Mark Feb 04 2006
    • Let's get the facts right, at least bushrat Feb 04 2006
      • it says i am spam. homerdave Feb 05 2006
      • starband is bouncing homerdave Feb 05 2006
  • I have a question Rod in Wasilla Feb 01 2006
    • Please give this some thought - Brian Richardson Feb 02 2006
      • baiting northway Feb 02 2006
        • You want natural you say? OK Brian Richardson Feb 02 2006
          • Brian northway Feb 03 2006
            • bushrat & northway Brian Richardson Feb 05 2006
          • Uh, Brian bushrat Feb 03 2006
        • Baiting AkHunter45 Feb 02 2006
          • It's about time akwolfer44 Feb 07 2006
          • reply-akhunter45 northway Feb 02 2006
    • Selling into extinction B_M Feb 02 2006
      • I think I get it Rod in Wasilla Feb 02 2006
    • You are right Rod AlaskaCub Feb 01 2006
  • Selling Wild Alaska SHORT! Brian Richardson Feb 01 2006
  • selling bear northway Feb 01 2006
    • yep bushrat Feb 02 2006
      • tend to agree Mark northway Feb 04 2006
  • It Will Be Interesting Mark Feb 01 2006
    • disinformation...again bushrat Feb 01 2006
      • Not Disinformation; BALANCE Mark Feb 02 2006
        • you aren't making much sense bushrat Feb 02 2006
      • Does anyone remember AlaskaCub Feb 01 2006
        • bear counts BRWNBR Feb 01 2006
          • How bears densities are estimated bushrat Feb 02 2006
    • OOPS!!! I'm a moron... B_M Feb 01 2006
    • Multiple areas B_M Feb 01 2006
  • Bushrat??? Akres Feb 01 2006
    • AKres et al---here's some info to ponder bushrat Feb 01 2006
      • Reply Akres Feb 01 2006
        • Question bushrat Feb 01 2006
          • Reply Akres Feb 02 2006
    • Sustained yield B_M Feb 01 2006
    • maximum sustained yield homerdave Feb 01 2006
  • The slope is steep and muddy bushrat Jan 31 2006
    • proposals BRWNBR Jan 31 2006
      • I respectfully differ in opinion on this bushrat Feb 01 2006
        • bushrat BRWNBR Feb 01 2006
    • a sad state homerdave Jan 31 2006
      • the status of bears Chisana Feb 01 2006
  • w/ brwnbr jklingel Jan 31 2006
  • control units? twodux Jan 31 2006
    • Yes, but it's nothing new B_M Jan 31 2006
  • selling BRWNBR Jan 31 2006