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Sportsmen’s Action Stalls Maine Anti-Bear Hunting Bill

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Columbus, OH - Last week, hundreds of Maine sportsmen and women packed a legislative hearing in opposition to a bill that would have banned bear hunting with dogs and bear trapping.

The bill, LD 1474, was supported and backed by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS).

At the hearing, members of the Joint Committee on Inland Fisheries heard testimony from dozens of Maine sportsmen’s organizations and individual sportsmen and women including the Maine Professional Guides Association, Maine Trappers Association, and the Sportsmen’s Alliance of Maine. After this testimony, the Committee unanimously voted that the bill “ought not to pass,” – a move that will likely kill the bill for this session.

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Source:  AmmoLand
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MD Bear Hunting Case placed on Stet Docket

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CUMBERLAND — The case of a LaVale man accused of hunting bears during closed season was placed on the stet docket Tuesday, eliminating a jury trial slated for Wednesday in Allegany County Circuit Court and denying the defendant the privilege to hunt for two years.

Charles Frederick Evans III, 31, was charged by Natural Resources Police Officer Cory Garver on the first day of the Maryland deer firearms season in November with shooting two bears, a 180-pound sow that died and a cub that was not recovered, in spite of an effort by a Department of Natural Resources tracking dog. The incident took place on the Green Ridge State Forest along Dailey Road southeast of Oldtown.

The decision to use the stet docket was made Tuesday morning during a case status conference. Evans was represented by Assistant Public Defender James F. Elliott.

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Source:  Cumberland Times-News
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Unexpected black bear becomes a thrilling video sensation

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Saskatchewan Bear Hunting

Saskadrenaline Outfitters

When Mike Grundman took 18-year-old Hunter Coleman on his first bear hunting tour, he knew it would be exciting. But even he couldn’t have predicted just how exciting it would be!

Grundman, who grew up on a farm in Central Saskatchewan, learned hunting from his father and his grandfather.  Now, along with wife Erin, he is the owner/operator of Saskadreneline Outfitters, one of the best outfitters in the country, specializing in whitetail deer and black bear hunts.

Saskadreneline Outfitters offer two camps to choose from in northern Saskatchewan. Included in their hunting packages is accommodation at a lakeside cabin, home cooked meals, transportation and a seven day guided bear hunt.
“It’s a great way to experience the outdoors, and the hunting creates an amazing adrenaline rush. If your heart isn’t pounding during a hunt, there’s no point in doing it,” said Grundman.

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Source:  Leader-Post
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Polar bear cub orphaned in Alaska lands at NY zoo

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It may have been the most anticipated package ever delivered to the Buffalo Zoo: an orphaned polar bear cub that arrived Wednesday from Alaska and will spend the summer with another cub born six months ago.

Kali arrived aboard a UPS flight at Buffalo Niagara International Airport shortly before 5:30 a.m., ending a 14-hour trip that was set in motion in March when a hunter in Alaska realized an adult female bear he’d killed was nursing.

“He followed the tracks back to the den, crawled down inside, found a cub, pulled it out, put it in his coveralls, rode it back into Point Lay and then got hold of U.S. Fish and Wildlife,” said Patrick Lampi, executive director of the Alaska Zoo, which has cared for the bear since.

Subsistence hunting is allowed in the area, but hunters aren’t allowed to shoot females with cubs, Lampi said after accompanying the cub to Buffalo.

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Source: Fremont Tribune
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Colorado Bear, mule deer have different problems, same solution

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Bears and mule deer continued to dominate the conversation among members of Colorado’s Parks and Wildlife Commission (PWC) and the sportsmen’s community at large during the monthly PWC meeting in Grand Junction on Thursday, albeit for converse reasons.

Commissioners taking on the annual task of approving limited big game hunting license recommendations for 2013 were once again reminded that Colorado has too many bears and not nearly enough mule deer to meet wildlife management objectives. Yet the short-term approach to both issues is the same: Increase the number of hunting licenses for both species.

The 20 percent increase in bear hunting licenses over 2012 by far outpaces the boost in license numbers for any other big game animal, although the sum of 21,167 bear licenses available in 2013 can’t compare with opportunities to hunt more popular big game animals like deer and elk. But state wildlife managers have made clear their intention to continue efforts to reduce Colorado’s black bear population conservatively estimated at about 18,000, and they’re looking at hunters for help. The predicted hunter harvest from the 2013 license allocation is 1,373 bears.

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Written by: Scott Willoughby or 303-954-1993
Source: The Denver Post
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Michigan Bear Hunting Licenses available now through June 1st.

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“There will be 7,906 bear hunting licenses available for the 2013 hunting seasons. Bear licenses are available for both residents and nonresidents.” [Bear Hunting Blog File Photo]

LANSING— The DNR reminds hunters that applications for Michigan bear hunting licenses are available now through June 1.

There will be 7,906 bear hunting licenses available for the 2013 hunting seasons.  Bear licenses are available for both residents and nonresidents; however, no more than 2 percent of licenses in any bear management unit will be issued to nonresidents.

Hunters can apply online at www.michigan.gov/huntdrawings, at any authorized license agent or at a DNR Customer Service Center. A nonrefundable $4 fee is charged at the time of application. Hunters may purchase just one application for each species.

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Written by: Janet Rohde
Source: Iron County Reporter
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Five stranded Alaska Bear Hunters Rescued

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At about 10:30 p.m. Sunday, Ketchikan Troopers received a 911 call from a 35-year-old Georgia man, reporting that he and his 14-year-old son were stranded near the Harris River Drainage near Hollis on Prince of Wales Island.

The two were members of a five-person black bear hunting party, all from the Lower 48. The other three hunters had dropped them off, and then taken the skiff to the head of 12 Mile Arm to hunt, and were two hours overdue to pick up the man and his son. Weather conditions were deteriorating, and the man said nobody in the group had gear to spend the night outdoors.

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Written by: KRBD Staff
Source: KRBD FM Radio
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Bear Hunting in Alaska: Which Rifle to Bring?

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"Bear Hunting in Alaska: Which Rifle to Bring?" [file photo]

“Bear Hunting in Alaska: Which Rifle to Bring?” [Bear Hunting Blog file photo]

The question is not so much what you’ll be hunting as, will you be in bear country? I have hunted caribou in Alaska with a .270, .270 WSM, and 7mm Weatherby Magnum, and all three did fine. Except that, on the hunt where I had the 7mm, I was checked out by a young boar grizzly, who seemed to find the guide, my friend, and me mildly disappointing and wandered away. If he had been a mature boar grizzly, I might have wished for a much bigger rifle.

I’ve known, personally, two guides who had to kill bears (one a brown, the other a grizzly) who were trying to do the same to them. One guide did the job himself with a .416 wildcat. The other guide had a .44 Magnum revolver, and the attack took place very suddenly over the disputed carcass of a caribou. The guide told me that if his client had not stood his ground and shot very quickly and very accurately with a .338, he might not be there to tell me the story.

So, my solution to Alaska rifle question (unless you’re way up in sheep and goat country where the chances of a bear encounter are fairly small) is to take something like a .338 loaded with 200- or 210-grain bullets for whatever you’re after, and stick a half-dozen 250-grain loads where you can get at them very quickly if you have to. This is if you’re hunting the non-dangerous stuff.

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Story by:  David E. Petzal
Source: Field & Stream
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OR Bill to Allow Bear Hunting with Dogs may get Senate Hearing

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The bill passed April 23 out of the House by a vote of 40-19, barely over the required two-thirds majority. It was referred to the Senate committee May 1. [file photo]

The bill passed April 23 out of the House by a vote of 40-19, barely over the required two-thirds majority. It was referred to the Senate committee May 1. [Bear Hunting Blog file photo]

Oregon State Sen. Alan Bates believes a bill that would allow counties to opt out of 18-year-old bans on sport-hunting cougars and bears with hounds and baiting bears likely will get a public hearing in a Senate committee this session amid heavy lobbying both to air it and to quell it.

If so, then House Bill 2624 would become the first such House bill to get a Senate hearing since Measure 18′s passage in 1994 enacted the statewide baiting and hounding bans.

“We haven’t really decided but my sense right now is we’ll probably give it a public hearing,” said Bates, D-Medford, a member of the Senate Environment and Natural Resource Committee, where the bill currently sits.

But whether it makes it to the full Senate for a vote is “up in the air,” Bates said. “It could go either way.

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Story by: Mark Freeman
Source: Mail Tribune
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Montana Grizzly bear plan released

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Montana Grizzly Bear management

The goal is to maintain a genetically diverse NCDE grizzly bear population with at least 800 grizzly bears, the plan says. The agency will take public comment for 90 days. [Bear Hunting Blog file photo]

A draft conservation plan to manage grizzly bears in northcentral and western Montana once federal protections are lifted was released by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Friday.

The 150-page document was created by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and other federal agencies, the state of Montana and tribal governments, said Chris Servheen, grizzly bear coordinator for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

Servheen emphasized that the conservation plan is not a proposal to remove the grizzly bear from the list of threatened and endangered species at this time. The status of grizzlies remains “threatened.”

However, the conservation strategy, when approved, will serve as the post-delisting management plan for grizzly bears and habitat in the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem. And once the conservation strategy is approved, the agency plans to move forward with efforts to remove federal protections, possibly as soon as next year, Servheen said.

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Story by: Karl Puckett
Source: Great Falls Tribune
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