Decided to make this its own thread.
They list the bear parts that are required to be turned in. Pretty sad that meat wasn’t on the list. Boot hunters allowed to keep one whole bear. Hound hunters can’t keep any, but the meat of ONE bear. Two bears per permit. They say they average 100 bears taken during this time. That’s a lot of wasted meat laying out in the canyon. Guys who put out the supplemental feeder barrels are the same guys running dogs. Hmmmm. That’s a great tactic. Put a few barrels out, get bears in the area. Remove barrels and run dogs. They also claimed that a sow with cubs is recommended not to be taken. Isn’t required to let the sow go. Sounds like It’s Up to the hunter.
It’s a painful two hours to watch them two stumble and backtrack on everything they say. It’s priceless though when alison asked them why two bears per permit. Anis eyes couldn’t have gotten any bigger.
So them guys (biggest poaching bust in our state)supposedly wasted game meat. Yet these two yahoo’s (bio’s) state on tv that the bear meat isn’t required to be checked in. So the department ok’s wasting bear meat on a depredation permit? Or where does it goes?