re: What do y’all think of the politics of bear hunting in Louisiana?

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Department of Wildlife and Fisheries initiated a process that could allow up to 10 hunters to kill one bear each, for a total of 10 bears, next year.


If the biologists have done the work to determine that this is the sustainable limit in Louisiana I’m good with it.

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10 is not even anywhere close to enough. They also need to expand it into parishes with lesser habitat than the hot zone in NE LA and South Central La.

When I did my hunter education class, they made sure to cover bears and how they were protected.

They also talked about a guy who had mistakenly killed a bear and got in deep shite over it. What made me smile was that the guy was a professor at ULL and his background was supposedly biology. And he claimed he had mistaken the bear for a pig.

Thanks for the article text.

The article words it, and I bet the petition is worded, to make people think hunters can kill up to 10 bears per season, which sounds like a blood bath. In fact, it's ten total bears that would be killed. They will issue one tag to ten different hunters chosen by lottery.

The original goal of the plan to re-establish the Black Bear in Louisiana was to get the population high enough to support manageable hunting seasons

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Department of Wildlife and Fisheries initiated a process that could allow up to 10 hunters to kill one bear each, for a total of 10 bears, next year.

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I’m no biologist but….how bad could the problem or how big could the population be that killing just ten animals would make some sort of impact?

Those are venomous Zach. He got you on a technicality.




And I think the bear season is a fine idea. I just wish it was 50 per year, at least. Bears were fine in Louisiana up until 5 million people showed up.

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i hunt in Tensas and we see way more bear than deer, 25 years ago you would have a couple sightings a year between the entire membership - now everyone is seeing bear nearly every hunt

was told that a biologist set up camera on a sow's den in the Tensas Reserve and she brought back several fawns for her cubs over the spring/ summer...that is one sow - so imagine the overall impact on the deer population

you could give out 30 tags in tensas alone

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Those are venomous Zach. He got you on a technicality.

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Lemme splain how disinterested I am in technicalities. In addition to what I listed, I've killed a dozen non venomous snakes in my yard. I'm very nonjudgmental. I just kill them and let God judge them in snake heaven.