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Black Bear Hunting in Louisiana?
Posted on 2/22/21 at 8:45 pm
Posted on 2/22/21 at 8:45 pm
I have luckily and gratefully hunted black bears in Alaska and Utah in my lifetime. I also still have one of my late father’s Louisiana black bear permits from the early 1970s.
Anyone have an idea, if and when, the LA Department of W&F will reopen black bear hunting in Louisiana?
Very limited, lottery-style drawings for tags and permits like many Western states? Residents only or open to nonresidents also? Prohibitively expensive so only the ultra-wealthy can participate?
Anyone have an idea, if and when, the LA Department of W&F will reopen black bear hunting in Louisiana?
Very limited, lottery-style drawings for tags and permits like many Western states? Residents only or open to nonresidents also? Prohibitively expensive so only the ultra-wealthy can participate?
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Posted on 2/22/21 at 8:59 pm to TigerBogue
The state continues to move the bar. They do say that the three areas in Louisiana that contain bears need to interbreed. The two that actually contain Louisiana Black Bears are interbreeding. The group down along the coast was imported from up north. Really no reason for them to mingle with the other bears since they aren’t Louisiana Black Bears. In the Tensas area, we’re slap overrun with them.
Posted on 2/22/21 at 9:23 pm to TigerBogue
Soon I hope. Not that I have a big desire to kill them. But there are too many damn bears around here
Posted on 2/22/21 at 11:53 pm to LSUballs
Hope they add to South Arkansas, the bears keep tearing up my deer feeders
Posted on 2/23/21 at 5:52 am to CamdenTiger
We keep hearing rumors of a season but only limited to landowner permits.
If they do have a season, I’m sure it will be very limited . They need to have a season on the TRNWR as well as some of the management areas infested with bear.
If they do have a season, I’m sure it will be very limited . They need to have a season on the TRNWR as well as some of the management areas infested with bear.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 6:03 am to LSUCouyon
We are thick with them along the Big Black river as well over in Mississippi...
Posted on 2/23/21 at 8:50 am to 257WBY
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In the Tensas area, we’re slap overrun with them.
I've got a camp in Tensas.... I can remember when we used to think seeing a bear was pretty cool. No longer. They are absolutely a nuisance.
I do know that LDWF is trying to study what to do with them. This past season they set up a DNA tagging station on our place. Hopefully they will do some kind of season on them before too long.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 9:08 am to TigerBogue
Need to.... I see more black bears than deer in Area 6
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:28 am to GABCommenter
LDWF and USFW have a lot more work to do to fend off the lawsuits from greenies if they try to open it back up, even on a very limited lottery basis.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 10:45 am to TigerBogue
Ahhhhh, the Louisiana Black Bear, a wonderful opportunity for them to blindly and ignorantly manage another species of wildlife....just like the alligator.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 4:00 pm to TigerBogue
There was one come up in a neighbors yard a year or two ago in CenLa. Im not an expert on bears but it was a black bear, so I guess it was a "La Black Bear"? Maybe it was some other kind. Them things are cute critters, but I wouldn't want to come across any bear walking in the woods. I thought I had been hearing the last few years that La was going to be doing a "Lottery Season" sometime soon.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 4:07 pm to BorrisMart
I would like my try at native Louisiana bear fat.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 4:12 pm to TigerBogue
Too much politics and money involved. I don’t think it will happen any time soon. I too have a tensas camp and it’s very rare I go a weekend without seeing them.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 4:33 pm to jmkidder
It is going to take a human getting mauled.
Posted on 2/23/21 at 4:43 pm to GREENHEAD22
Too much money from all the conservation tools. Will never happen.
I hunt in area 6 and we have had several small pigs and young does killed and promptly eaten by the bears. Ridiculous.
I hunt in area 6 and we have had several small pigs and young does killed and promptly eaten by the bears. Ridiculous.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 7:18 am to bushwacker
quote:Many conservation folks want a limited / lottery season. the number of road kills and nuisance bear incidents clearly points to over population on sustainable habitat. the fight against a season will come from "protectionist" groups.
Too much money from all the conservation tools
due to them being listed on the ESA and the nuances of the populations a huge sticking point is proving that there is co-mingling and inter breeding between the 3 populations hence the "habitat corridor" that connects all 3.
Posted on 2/24/21 at 7:19 am to bushwacker
quote:them killing the pigs is a good thing, I am surprised they can catch a doe.
I hunt in area 6 and we have had several small pigs and young does killed and promptly eaten by the bears. Ridiculous.
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