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Post by flippin on Oct 31, 2015 4:22:49 GMT -5
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Post by nuzpaper on Oct 31, 2015 8:41:15 GMT -5
It's about time. I was wondering if they would wait until the moose were completely gone before they reinstated it.
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Post by peter on Oct 31, 2015 17:36:38 GMT -5
As im not a hunter however i dont judge . Id rather see a bear roming around in the bush rather then in the back of a truck .
No offence to hunters its just how i feel..
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Post by RT Dave on Nov 1, 2015 8:49:24 GMT -5
Sensitive topic to some of us, and each of us entitled to our own opinion, hopefully based on facts and personal experiences. I'd rather see a bear in the back of a truck intended for the freezer than shot as a nuisance and taken to the dump to rot.
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Post by isthereice on Nov 1, 2015 9:32:42 GMT -5
Hooray for the return of the spring hunt!!
I heard about this a couple of days ago through an OFAH email. Bear numbers have exploded in the near North and beyond, and this hunt is really needed to help bring them back under control. I personally am especially happy since with my work schedule I'll be able to make a real effort in the early spring at a black bear, in the late summer/fall I'm swamped with work and can't really get out there enough. I planned to try this year but was too busy.
For anyone who's interested the real reason for the bear explosion is NOT the absence of the spring hunt, the problem is too much clear cut logging. Clear cutting is detrimental to many species, but is a gold mine for black bears. Why? Because a female black bear won't give birth to cubs in the spring if she didn't have access to enough berries in the summer. The berries are rich in sugar and this allows her to put on a lot of fat. If she's able to put on enough fat to get through the winter and nurse her cubs in the spring, she will give birth to those cubs. If not she will absorb the fetus back into her own body and not have cubs that year. If she had the cubs it would kill her and them because she wouldn't be able to feed them and sustain herself too.
What has this got to do with clear cut logging? After clear cutting some of the first plants to shoot up in the absence of the tree canopy shadow are berry bushes. With millions of acres of forest clear cut, this turns rapidly into millions of acres of prime bear forage. The bears feast and become fat and then every single female bear out there will give birth to her cubs the following spring. This, of course, results in a huge increase of black bears, and a huge decrease in all the animals black bears prey on, which is everything. Bears are not the cuddly vegetarians Disney makes them out to be. They are voracious and extremely powerful predators and can take down any animal they come across, except a mature moose. Young moose are certainly on the menu and the bears are eating many of them as they are born, killing the calf and the mother, which is why moose numbers are getting so low.
The return of the spring hunt will help bring the bear numbers back into balance with the rest of nature. It was clear cutting that lead to the imbalance, not the removal of the spring hunt, but still the return of the hunt will help to correct it.
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Post by peter on Nov 1, 2015 9:53:13 GMT -5
Can always count on you guys to better educate me, thanks for that.  |
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Post by isthereice on Nov 1, 2015 10:14:13 GMT -5
no problem Peter, I'm learning all the time too.
thank you for the ice reports....can hardly wait to start cutting holes |
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Post by archer179 on Nov 5, 2015 10:58:14 GMT -5
Any idea if it will be open to non res. hunters?  ? |
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Post by isthereice on Nov 5, 2015 13:22:53 GMT -5
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Post by Donny on Nov 6, 2015 22:44:13 GMT -5
Hooray for the return of the spring hunt!!
I heard about this a couple of days ago through an OFAH email. Bear numbers have exploded in the near North and beyond, and this hunt is really needed to help bring them back under control. I personally am especially happy since with my work schedule I'll be able to make a real effort in the early spring at a black bear, in the late summer/fall I'm swamped with work and can't really get out there enough. I planned to try this year but was too busy.
For anyone who's interested the real reason for the bear explosion is NOT the absence of the spring hunt, the problem is too much clear cut logging. Clear cutting is detrimental to many species, but is a gold mine for black bears. Why? Because a female black bear won't give birth to cubs in the spring if she didn't have access to enough berries in the summer. The berries are rich in sugar and this allows her to put on a lot of fat. If she's able to put on enough fat to get through the winter and nurse her cubs in the spring, she will give birth to those cubs. If not she will absorb the fetus back into her own body and not have cubs that year. If she had the cubs it would kill her and them because she wouldn't be able to feed them and sustain herself too.
What has this got to do with clear cut logging? After clear cutting some of the first plants to shoot up in the absence of the tree canopy shadow are berry bushes. With millions of acres of forest clear cut, this turns rapidly into millions of acres of prime bear forage. The bears feast and become fat and then every single female bear out there will give birth to her cubs the following spring. This, of course, results in a huge increase of black bears, and a huge decrease in all the animals black bears prey on, which is everything. Bears are not the cuddly vegetarians Disney makes them out to be. They are voracious and extremely powerful predators and can take down any animal they come across, except a mature moose. Young moose are certainly on the menu and the bears are eating many of them as they are born, killing the calf and the mother, which is why moose numbers are getting so low.
The return of the spring hunt will help bring the bear numbers back into balance with the rest of nature. It was clear cutting that lead to the imbalance, not the removal of the spring hunt, but still the return of the hunt will help to correct it.
Two paws up. This is a beary, berry interesting read. |
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Post by dishmando on Nov 7, 2015 9:36:33 GMT -5
I agree, quite the read. Also, I'm open to some bear if you hunters don't have the room in your freezers!! I'd like to give them a try.
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Post by archer179 on Nov 18, 2015 10:54:14 GMT -5
If the spring season will be open to non. res. hunters are there any board members that might think of guiding? I hunted spring Bear for years until the season was closed. Would sure love to do it again. Canada is beautiful in the spring... |
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