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Big Game Hunting => Bear Hunting => Topic started by: Jesse Jaymes on December 14, 2009, 08:25:38 PM

Title: Spring Bear harvest stats and draw odds?
Post by: Jesse Jaymes on December 14, 2009, 08:25:38 PM: I just moved to the Colville area and have been surfing here for several months. I am not able to find the stats, but I thought that someone had posted the harvest stats for the spring hunts for NE WA a few months ago?

Now that I am here and can see the areas, it will be easier for me to make a decision on the areas I want to apply for, but I was certain one area was much more productive than the others. Did the Sherman unit beat all the others?

Thoughts for spring bear draws over here?

I am surprised at the mountains over here and the spring success. I was expecting the mountains to be taller and have green alpine meadows above tree line. But it seems they are not tall enough for that. I think Abercrombie is the tallest peak around and while I have not done to much research on it, what I can see is a bit more sparsly treed up at the top, but it's nowhere near alpine.

As I have mentioned in a few other posts since arriving here, it's much thicker than I expected here and think the hunting here is going to be tougher than I had anticipated.
Title: Re: Spring Bear harvest stats and draw odds?
Post by: STIKNSTRINGBOW on December 15, 2009, 09:55:36 AM: http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/harvest/2006/permits/bear.htm (http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/harvest/2006/permits/bear.htm)
http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/harvest/2007/permits/bear.htm (http://wdfw.wa.gov/wlm/game/harvest/2007/permits/bear.htm)
http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/permits/results/index.html (http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/permits/results/index.html)
http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/permits/results/blackbear.html (http://wdfw.wa.gov/hunting/permits/results/blackbear.html)

These might help clear up a few questions....