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Post by ibugly on Jan 11, 2011 20:32:48 GMT -6
www.knoxnews.com/news/2011/jan/10/tennessee-hunters-kill-301-bears-during-2010-hunti/Overall when you consider most of the bear population is from Sullivan County to Polk County and the vast area of national forest this isn't that big a harvest number. It might help to curtail the house moochers and strays that take off for the Cumberland Mountains though. Several posters made comments about using dogs on those hunts. Dogs have been used in bear hunting in this area since it was first explored. The principle is really no different than coon hunting.
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Post by caretaker on Jan 11, 2011 20:53:39 GMT -6
I consider that a good harvest.
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Post by ibugly on Jan 11, 2011 21:21:41 GMT -6
Yea & it by no means endangered the bear population. A healthy thinning. BTW Pappy heard from the guy me and him hiked to Eagle Creek with when I was about 14. He was asking Pappy what years we hiked in. A biologist at the park service is fixing to retire and he was going to talk to him about the Brook Trout {if any} above the falls at Shuckstack Rock. They caught a few Brooks on a fly below the falls and helped them up over it. Just curious as to if they had taken hold. He also said there was a big fire below Spence Field in the upper water shed a few years back. That sure wouldn't help matters.
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Post by caretaker on Jan 11, 2011 21:47:05 GMT -6
Yea, the bear population won`t be hurt by the numbers taken. As far as using dogs for hunting I have no problem as long as the dogs only hunt what they are suppose to. As far as dogs chasing deer the dogs I have seen doing so have been family dogs or strays.
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Post by ibugly on Jan 11, 2011 22:30:26 GMT -6
Yep and on WMA's in deer areas stray dogs are targets or used to be.. No reason for them to be there and they could run a deer to death if the dog could trail.
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