Killing hibernating bears

The only time I ever heard about anyone doing that is an old timer from Port Hardy said they did it once in the 1930s.

Wasn't there something in the news recently that some law was being changed in Alaska to permit it?

Just looked it up: The US house of representatives passed it Feb. 16 for 16 wildlife refuges in Alaska.

I'm sure it is extremely, extremely rare (here anyway) but once it got into the news, folks not in the know suddenly assumed it was common practice.

This is going to be my 41st year black bear hunting and I think I've seen a possible den once.
 
GOUMFACH said:
Was just having supper with the inlaws and they where disgusted to hear that new laws in Alaska allow for hunting hibernating bears. I didn't get too involved in the conversation because, well....let's just say because lol....anyhow, what is the point of this? Do people really want to crawl into bear dens and shoot sleeping yogis?
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This has to be the most cruel and inhumane thing a government can do to wild life I can imagine. I don't give a shyte about aboriginal or hunting rights to be letting anybody do this. Makes me sick!
 
A surprising number of bears are killed in their dens hibernating by skidders , bulldozers and timber harvesters . Many will just crawl into a small space under an old stump or base of a tree and then the loggers arrive in the winter .
 
Because it's so easy to find a bear's den.

I'd much rather head out on snowshoes in the mountains with the dogs than sit in a tree watching a garbage can.
 
It appears many missed the point that this was about controlling population and open to the state of Alaska to use these measures if necessary, and not the opening of a new hunting season......
 
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