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All Hunting Articles
CODY — Wildlife officials are investigating a grizzly bear encounter near Cody in which a hunter shot and killed a grizzly bear after being bitten by the bear.
The hunter was bitten at least twice on the left thigh Wednesday morning in the Upper South Fork Valley, about 35 miles southwest of Cody, according to Mark Bruscino, bear management officer for the Wyoming Game and Fish De-partment.
The hunter was alone, but was able to walk out of the backcountry, and was assisted by someone in the area, Brus-cino said.
A black bear relocated from Merritt to the Pennask Lake area by conservation officers in June has been killed.
The bear was hunted legally during open season in the Kelowna area on Oct. 14., according to local B.C. Conservation Officer Jeff Hanratty.
“It’s going to be on somebody’s wall somewhere,” said Hanratty in an interview with the Merritt News
A Pennsylvania man was recovering at a Lander hospital Thursday after surgery to repair broken bones in his face caused by a grizzly bear attack northwest of Dubois.
“The guy was hunting elk when he encountered a bear at about ten yards,” said Wyoming Game and Fish bear management supervisor Mark Bruscino. “The bear bit him on the arm, the face and at least one time on the top of the head.”
The hunter told officials he thought the grizzly bear came out of a bed.
Officials seeking to euthanize a mother black bear that mauled a bow hunter in a tree stand along with her three cubs in the northern Lower Peninsula have set up trail cameras and collected hair samples aimed at catching the animal.
Michigan Department of Natural Resources and Environment spokesman Bob Gwizdz tells the Petoskey News-Review a culvert trap was set Tuesday evening.
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is considering allowing bear hunting in the state.
Bear hunting has been banned in Florida since 1994, but now the Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is putting together a management plan that would allow hunting if the black bear population gets out of control.
The black bear population has grown a lot since the 1970s when the state named the animals a threatened species. There are an estimated 3,000 in Florida.
A grizzly bear is dead and a man injured after a conflict in the woods near Cody on Thursday, marking the second time this year a bear has injured a hunter in Wyoming.
The man was hunting with a partner near Jim Mountain when the bear attacked, biting him on the right biceps.
His name was not available at press time.
“The hunter had a minor injury,” said Wyoming Game and Fish bear management supervisor Mark Bruscino.
Alaska wildlife managers say they need help: A growing number of black bears are roaming the state, chowing down on too many caribou and moose and leaving too few for humans to eat.
So the state is poised for the first time to legalize the trapping of black bears.
Critics call the plan cruel: Bears are lured with buckets of raw meat and their paws are snared when they reach inside. Sometimes, bears end up chewing off a foot to get free.
ANCHORAGE, Alaska - A move by the state Department of Fish and Game to legalize the snaring and trapping of bears for the first time since statehood has a conservation group and an agency watchdog accusing Alaska's game board and other state officials of trying to silence the public on important wildlife management issues.
But the head of Alaska's largest sportsmen's group said Friday the agency's proposal to allow bear trapping is an attempt to give the public more hunting opportunities while building on the state's aerial predator control program in which wolves and bears are killed to boost moose and caribou numbers.
SHELTON - A brush picker who was found dead this week in a remote area of Mason County was shot by a hunter who accidentally mistook him for a bear, the Mason County Sheriff's Office said Thursday.
"At this point in the investigation detectives are calling the incident a tragic hunting accident," said B. Dean Byrd, chief deputy with the Mason County Sheriff's Office.
BOZEMAN — Wildlife officials said a bow hunter is recovering after a grizzly bear mauled him in the southern Gravelly Mountains near Ennis, just 3 1/2 miles from where a similar attack happened less than a week earlier.
Montana Fish, Wildlife & Parks said 49-year-old Kim Wunderlich was hunting with a partner in the Cascade Creek area Friday when the female grizzly with two cubs knocked him down and bit him once on the inner thigh. The hunter was taken to a hospital in Dillon and has since been released.
Wildlife officials say a grizzly bear attacked a bow hunter in the southern Gravelly Mountains near Ennis over the weekend.
BOZEMAN, Mont. — Wildlife officials say a grizzly bear attacked a bow hunter in the southern Gravelly Mountains near Ennis over the weekend.
Sam Sheppard, a game warden with Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks, said the Sunday morning attack left Matt Menge of Bozeman with a broken right forearm and large cuts to the head. The warden described the attack as fast and sudden.
ELY, Minn. (WCCO) ― The shooting of a collared bear in Northern Minnesota is causing quite a debate. Sarah, a black bear that was being studied by the North American Bear Center, was shot and killed by a hunter on Sunday or Monday.
It's not illegal to shoot a radio-collared bear, but Lynn Rogers believes it's unethical. He is the biologist who had been studying Sarah since she was born a year and a half ago.
Rogers said he last saw Sarah on Saturday. On Tuesday, the DNR handed him her radio collar, evidence that she was taken by a hunter.
As a hunter it is entirely frustrating that the article that appeared in Pique Aug. 26th regarding the black bear that was shot with a crossbow in Pemberton last week finished with the statement "The Resort Municipality of Whistler is now considering a bylaw that would make it illegal to bow hunt within the municipality." Finishing the article with this statement would make readers believe a) that the person who did this was hunting and b) that a bow hunting bylaw would prevent this from occurring in the future.
Bow hunting season began Sept. 1 and there's no bylaw to prohibit crossbows in Whistler.
The issue was raised in council in August but any actions that may be taken to curb bow hunting within municipal boundaries won't be made until at least October.
Heather Beresford, environmental stewardship manager for the Resort Municipality of Whistler, who is in charge of the report, said she's keeping an open mind and not necessarily jumping to the conclusion that a bylaw regulating bow hunting is the only option.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission has drafted a bear management plan that attempts to grapple with all the issues raised by the resurgence of a species that can reach 600 pounds and has a taste for garbage.
The plan calls for setting up local resident groups to work out bear issues; reducing those killed on roads; establishing wilderness corridors to reconnect shrinking, genetically isolated bear populations along the Gulf coast with larger ones inland; and — most controversially — considering whether Florida should reopen bear hunting, banned in 1994.
Police and conservation officers are investigating an incident involving the death of a bear at the hands of a Pemberton resident who admitted shooting it with a crossbow within municipal boundaries.
Police were called to a home on Dogwood Street in the Pemberton Benchlands on Saturday (Aug. 21) at around 9 p.m., Whistler RCMP Staff Sgt. Steve LeClair said. A resident had heard a “strange cry” and then spotted a dead bear in her backyard, he said.
Whistler following a personal anti-hunting agenda, PWF president says
Council's proposed ban on crossbows has little to do with improving safety and everything to do with impeding hunters' rights, says one advocate.
Clarke Gatehouse, president of the Pemberton Wildlife Federation (PWF) said that bow hunting within RMOW limits hasn't been a safety issue in the past because no one in Whistler has ever been hit with a crossbow.
Re: Bowhunting within the RMOW boundaries
On behalf of Whistler Residents Opposed to Urban Hunting, we would like to ask that mayor and council regulate bow hunting within municipal boundaries; or at minimum in areas that are used recreationally.
According to the B.C. Hunting Regulations, most municipalities have local bylaws restricting and controlling the use of weapons, firearms and bows within their boundaries. And Whistler does in fact have a bylaw that makes it unlawful to discharge a firearm within our municipal limits (Firearms Regulation Bylaw No. 874, 1991). Provincial regulations do, however, stipulate "No Hunting" areas making it illegal to bow hunt within 100 metres of a dwelling or playground within the RMOW.
A resident of Whistler, B.C., wants crossbow hunting banned in the municipality after learning that it's legal to use the weapons to hunt bears within the resort community's boundaries.
Sylvia Dolson opposes bear hunting and says it's just a matter of time before a person becomes a victim of a crossbow.
"Safety is a major concern," Dolson told CBC News. "We have all kinds of parks, hiking trails, biking trails."
NEW JERSEY'S latest bear-management plan is a well-researched and reasoned document. It has the right primary goal: maintaining a robust, healthy black bear population.
But we disagree with its conclusion, which state environmental officials formalized last week: to hold a six-day hunt this December.
The 45-page document lays out a variety of bear-management approaches, including trash management and sterilization. Some of the latest population statistics — which always seem to buttress the policy preference of whoever is in charge of state environmental policy — estimate the number of black bears in New Jersey at 3,400. That is triple the estimate in 2006, when then-Gov. Jon Corzine canceled a hunt and demanded that the state draft a new management plan. The plan by the state's Fish and Game Council now recommends regular hunts — no surprise, since the council is sympathetic to hunters.
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