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I'm not quite sure what the big deal is? This bear was in a hole? So what? According to the article the bear was not sleeping. Following the biggest bear track you have ever seen into a den and shooting him is a whole hell of a lot more impressive to me than having 10 dogs run him up a tree. He was no less "trapped" in this den than he would have been up a tree. The only issue I saw reading the article was the whole flashlight incident.
I certainly hope the DOW turns down the proposed regulation. The only way to tell for sure whether a bear is simply sleeping in a hole, or has entered hibernation, is to take a rectal temperature and see if the core temperature is suppressed.
if after entering a bears den and checking the rectal internal temp,then determining weather the temp is suppressed or not, would you then ask the sleeping bear to wake up & step out side or would you take picts and consider this a new extreme sport?