What's happening in Ca. without hounds

[Dale T]

There has to be a bunch of those taken with hounds. It's too close for them to be all just regular hunters.

We put in for a info request and this what we got back:
1. For the year’s 2013 and 2014 ( to date )were the numbers reported ONLY bear harvested by hunters, if so how many ?

Answer – Bear take information reported in the 2013 bear take report includes only bears taken by hunters. The total reported hunter take in 2013 was 1,064. For 2014, thus far (10-28-14), the hunter bear take is 916.


2. Were any bear that were depredation, traffic fatalities, or any other instance that the result was a bear fatality ( other than a hunter ), added into the end of the year numbers for 2013 and to date for 2014, if so can you please break down how many were from hunters and/or other circumstances?

Answer - Please note as asked, no non-hunting bear fatalities were added to the bear hunter take numbers for both 2013 and 2014.


And as of January 15, 2015, the California black bear harvest is: 1342

https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Bear

[Fitz]

Well has anyone heard about the bear problems going on everywhere?


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[kickemall]

Always minor problems everywhere I know of. Yesterday a guy in Mariposa walked out on his porch and got chewed up by one that he didn't see when he went out. Ate him up pretty good but he'll be o.k. F&W is looking for it.

[fallriverwalker1]

so kick why doesent this guy file a law suit against ole ted lieu and stiengburg , they are directly responsible for these attacks, this is not an act of god, this will get worse these animals have lost fear of man , none of this was based on scientific data// all of this is simply these idots don't like any type of hunting... and if I hear one more time that the fish and bunny cops are on our side I'm going to loose my cool jim

[kickemall]

Jim if you got the impression from my post that I think F&W is on our side you mis-interpreted it. I just stated the fact that F&W was trying to find the bear that ate the guy up.

Dave

[fallriverwalker1]

no dave that wasn't what I was implying// just seems like every time something like this comes up and I say lets get an atty and sue fand g some one in our state orig comes on here and tells us these guys are on our side//// well ive never seen it so I always ask sorry if you got the wrong imp jim

[kickemall]

No sweat Jim. Just wanted to make sure we were on the same page and it sounds like we are. Take care,

Dave

[Dale T]

So far as of Oct 31, 2015 F&W Bear take is at 940 down 37 from about the same date for 2014 (977 as of 3 Nov. 2014) and up from 2013 of 647 as of the Oct. 31 2013.

[Dale T]

As of Nov.18 2015 F&W has 1061 bears being reported for 2014 Bear take as of 13 November 1080, 2013 it was 795 as of the 15 Nov. up 285 from 2014 but still down about 380 from 2012, at this time in 2012 the take was 1461.
https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Bear

[Dale T]

1194 as of the close of the season, if I remember right it down about 200+ from last year.

[Dale T]

https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Bear
As of Dec.1st they had reported 919, down about 150-200 from the same time last year.

[Dale T]

The 2016 bear season reported harvest, as of 1/09/2017, is: 1022 https://www.wildlife.ca.gov/Hunting/Bear

[mrburneisen]

Does anyone have depredidation data for 2014-2017? I'd like to see how this is trending.

depredeidation kills jumped from 64 to 143 in 2013 to 2014.
https://nrm.dfg.ca.gov/FileHandler.ashx ... 007&inline