Friday, November 18, 2011

Bear hunting during the gun deer season

Seven counties. Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Monongalia, Morgan, Nicholas (private land), and Raleigh counties will be open for bear season during the deer gun season November 21 to December 3rd with out the use of dogs. The management objective is the need of additional bear harvest goal. With the concurrent buck-gun and bear season will occur when the maximum numbers of hunters in the woods. With the spotty mast crop this season will have the means that hunters will be successful will have to find in areas where the bears are feeding. All or parts of 24 counties will be open to hunt with or without dogs, from December 5th to the 31st. and all or parts of 37 counties will be open to hunt bears with out the use of dogs. Any hunter harvest a bear should submit a premolar tooth. Female bear harvest should save the reproductive tract or all entrails be kept cool and contact the nearest DNR District Wildlife Office to arrange pick up. Beer tooth can be sent in with an envelope hunters can pick at all checking station. Data from the tooth and entrails will help track the bear population monitoring

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