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Posted by cartwright on 01-26-2013 09:50 PM:

West Virginia Hunters Harvest a Record 2,683 Black Bears in 2012

West Virginia Hunters Harvest a Record 2,683 Black Bears in 2012

1/17/2013
SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. – West Virginia hunters harvested 2,683 black bears during the combined 2012 archery and firearms seasons, according to Colin Carpenter, Black Bear Project leader for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources. The preliminary harvest for the combined 2012 seasons was 34 percent higher than the 2011 harvest of 2,009 bears and 12 percent higher than the previous record harvest of 2,392 established in 2010. The black bear harvest of 2012 marks the fourth time in the past five years that the harvest has topped 2,000.

“As predicted in the 2012 DNR Mast Survey and Hunting Outlook publication, mast conditions had a tremendous influence on the distribution of this year’s bear harvest,” said Carpenter. “The statewide oak mast index for 2012 was much higher than in 2011 but the distribution was spotty. This fact, combined with two additional weeks of archery hunting, allowed archers to locate bears effectively and led to an increased archery harvest.

Abundant oak mast keeps bears active into the winter and makes these bears vulnerable to harvest during concurrent buck-gun and bear seasons and the traditional December firearms season. Favorable mast conditions, combined with multiple counties open during September, led to a large increase in the firearms harvest.”

Hunters took 746 bears during the 2012 archery season. The top five counties were Webster (71), Nicholas (67), Randolph (57), Fayette (55) and Preston (51).

Firearms hunters harvested 1,937 bears during 2012. Hunters took 681 bears in September, 266 during the concurrent buck/bear season and 990 during the traditional December season. The top five counties were Pocahontas (183), Pendleton (179), Randolph (163), Webster (151) and Greenbrier (148).

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Posted by GA DAWG on 01-26-2013 10:00 PM:

Dern! That's a bunch of dead bears!

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Posted by cartwright on 01-26-2013 10:12 PM:

[QUOTE]Originally posted by GA DAWG
Dern! That's a bunch of dead bears! [/QUOTE

For several years we had Black Bear Sanctuaries to help build the population of Black Bear it more then done its job. The ended up opening it up to hunting due to great population.

Posted by VA BLUEDOGS on 01-27-2013 02:11 AM:

kills

Well i duno va says every year theres a record number of kills made but everybody you talk to aint seen nothin. Sounds like horse***t to me.

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