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Oregon Bear Hunting Report

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Bear season continues through the end of May for spring bear tag holders in the Hood and White River WMUs. Spring bears often prefer foraging on new grasses and forb growth. Bring a good pair of binoculars or spotting scope and glass open south facing hillsides. Predator calling can be productive, particularly if you know a bear is using an area. Successful hunters will need to check in with an ODFW office within 10 days of harvesting your bear. The bear head must be unfrozen, and propping the mouth open with an object will help biologists to remove the tooth necessary for aging.

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Source:  The Dalles Chronicle

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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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Ontario’s Del Villano bear hunt examined in Documentary

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TIMMINS – Timmins is a community that is built upon stories of heroism, bravery, ingenuity and downright strangeness.

From Sandy McIntyre to Maggie Buffalo, the snippets of Timmins past are wide spread and deeply rooted. But none of the stories transcended the borders of the community and the country quite like the tale of one mayor and his determination to see the Queen’s guard look their best marching in front of Buckingham Palace.

Leo Del Villano served as Mayor of Timmins for many years. Between 1956 and 1959 he gained international fame for having organized the largest bear hunt in Ontario’s history.

“I am looking at an overall perspective on Black Bear hunting and management in Ontario and as I had been going through a number of newspaper articles, I stumbled across Leo Del Villano’s story,” said Michael Commito, a PhD candidate from the Department of History at McMaster University.

Commito has focused his PhD on the history of the Black Bear hunt in Ontario from 1892 to 1999.

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Commito’s documentary is posted on YouTube. Click the link to see it

Story by: Kyle Gennings
Source:  Timmins Press
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Oregon Bear hunting: Let the locals choose

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The latest proposal strikes us as a reasonable compromise between the current situation and an outright reversal of those restrictions.

It’s House Bill 2624. The House Agriculture and Natural Resources Committee had a public hearing on the bill Tuesday.

We like the legislation because it would give voters a chance to decide whether the limits on cougar and bear hunting should continue.

But here’s the best part of the bill, which was introduced by Rep. Brian Clem, a Democrat from Salem: It would let voters in each of the state’s 36 counties decide how to manage cougar and bear hunting in their counties.

Measure 18, by contrast, was a statewide vote.

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Source:  Baker City Herald
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