Last year I was on the west side searching for mushrooms in a national forest and all along the campgrounds were signs warning about bears frequenting the area due to all the trash and food people were leaving out. The bears were starting to get less afraid of people and were coming into camps while people were there. To me, it sounds like an area that I need to go to when bear season opens.
From what I’ve read it’s legal to hunt bear during the elk permit season, but I’m not completely positive.
If it is allowed, I don’t want to be screwing up peoples elk hunts that they’ve been waiting for. I believe it’s a semi difficult permit to draw and I don’t want to be the guy that ruins someone else’s hunt.
I’m thinking that if I stay low near the campgrounds I wouldn’t be interfering with the elk hunt, but I wanted to get some other opinions. I’m fairly new to hunting and I don’t want to be a blue falcon.