Thought I would share this
http://MyFWC.com/news/news-releases/2011/november/10/bear-plan/
150 killed by cars and you still can't hunt them..........So now every one has to get 200.00 trash cans...Thanks. My son is stationed at Hubert field and says that the bears are out of control.
I was at Hurlburt from 1989 to 1995, and lived up there until 1998. Don't remember any reports of bears back then. It's amazing how the population of bears has grown in 13 years or so to the point they are a nuisance.
I was at Hurlburt from 1989 to 1995, and lived up there until 1998. Don't remember any reports of bears back then. It's amazing how the population of bears has grown in 13 years or so to the point they are a nuisance.
Mismanagement will do that every time. A sow will have on average of 2 cubs per year x 13 years = 26 bears from 1 sow over 13 years. Supposing there were 100 sows 13 years ago that is 2600 new bears + from the 2600 new bears, say 1500 were sows, well, you get the picture. If the season has been closed for 13 years it is time someone decided to open the season as it sounds like they have become a nuisance. Surely someone in the gov't must realize this and with any luck you will have an open season in 2012. I know the black bears here were becoming over populated and the Department of Natural Resources has a 3 bag limit per hunter (1 by hunting and 2 by snaring) to keep the population in check in 2011.
I was at Hurlburt from 1989 to 1995, and lived up there until 1998. Don't remember any reports of bears back then. It's amazing how the population of bears has grown in 13 years or so to the point they are a nuisance.
Mismanagement will do that every time. A sow will have on average of 2 cubs per year x 13 years = 26 bears from 1 sow over 13 years. Supposing there were 100 sows 13 years ago that is 2600 new bears + from the 2600 new bears, say 1500 were sows, well, you get the picture. .
Your math is almost as bad as PETA telling us how 1 cat can have a million kittens... 🙂
Almost, but not quite.
Black bears can reproduce at 3 years of age, so even if we assume that all 100 were breeding age in 2000 AND we assume that all 100 had 2 cubs on Jan 1 that year, with a gestation period of 235 days and raising their cubs for almost another year, none of them gave birth again until 2002 or so.
Assuming that any young sows reaching sexual maturity during that period were balanced by any deaths, even if all of our original sows had 2 cubs again as soon as possible, none of our Jan 1 cubs were giving birth till 2003 or so.
