re: Louisiana Bear Season

Bear is very good. I have had bear burgers, chili, spaghetti, breakfast sausage, and in a regular rice in gravy. All the bear I have eaten has come from around Anchorage Alaska.

I am putting in for tags that's for dang sure.

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they look a little weird skinned out

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There are people that have never wanted to hunt bear again or eat them after seeing one skinned out. The hands are the worst.

I'm gonna apply. If i had a tag i could go kill one tomorrow

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They brought in bears from Minnesota and Canada and released them here.

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They did this with deer in the south in 1970’s bringing them in from the midwest

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Not reintroduced. These are native bears, hence the name Louisiana Black Bear.

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The North Louisiana populations are not LA black bears. That was proven with a genetic study by USGS that showed that they shared the same genetics with Minnesota black bears. However, the coastal populations could be distinguished from other bears, and are a distinct population of black bear.

Also, black bears were reintroduced to North LA...from Minnesota.

Bears are nothing more than oversized coons.

In this part of the country I wouldn’t even consider them a predator any more than just an opportunist.

In all of nature, there is a place for the brown bear and Grizzly because they an are certainly apex predators in their environment and serve a purpose.

That being said I’ve never liked any of them because they are such opportunists that they will eat their own cubs if hungry or not.

Not many other animals do that. And if they do, they are probably on my short list of animals to dislike.

PS: there are a LOT more Grizzly attacks on humans in the US than you realize. The local news agencies suppress it as much as possible because of tourism and with a little digging you’ll see.

Met a freelance outdoor cameraman on a flight once, he said it looks like a human skinned out, but taste great.

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While true, bears in NE Louisiana were never completely killed out and they live on today. In a few years, it really won’t matter, as the Arkansas bears move into Louisiana and we end up with whatever genetic mix that turns into.

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The northern bears in Louisiana never were truly unique. They are the same as the Arkansas bears except for the new and true subspecies discovered in Arkansas, White River Black Bear, due to all the DNA research done on the "Louisiana" bears. Our coastal bears are unique but not the ones in the rest of the state. This whole bear thing is more about habitat protection than the bears themselves.

TRB stands for Tensas River Basin.

“Disregarding the Mississippi, the alien UARB, and the hybridized TRC groups, the only existing true Louisiana black bear populations are those of the TRB and LARB. ”

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Disregarding the Mississippi, the alien UARB, and the hybridized TRC groups, the only existing true Louisiana black bear populations are those of the TRB and LARB

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And one (the TRB) was supplemented with Minnesota bears, while the other (LARB) was found to have Minnesota genetics in them.

Apparently the people that cited that information can't read, because it's very clearly stated in a 2014 dissertation on LA Black Bear genetics. But, that doesn't fit their argument that the bear shouldn't be delisted.