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<blockquote data-quote="Pdvdh" data-source="post: 2601404" data-attributes="member: 4191"><p>There may be a few brown bear on Kupreanof Island, according to this 2019 article. I've "<em>cut and pasted a few sentences"</em> from the article below.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kfsk.org/2019/01/18/board-oks-fall-brown-bear-hunt-for-islands-near-petersburg-wrangell/[/URL]</p><p></p><p>I've never hunted Southeast, and I have no inside information on brown bears on the Islands in GMU 3. But this article suggests some brown bear on these islands as of 3 years ago.</p><p></p><p>"<em>The islands of game management unit 3 are home to smaller and less dangerous black bears. In the last few decades residents have reported sightings of the larger and more dangerous brown bears. Bears are able to walk and swim from the mainland to these islands.</em></p><p><em>Petersburg hunter and former hunting guide Paul Lutomski told the board he's seen multiple bears on the island and believes there's a healthy population here. "A lot of these bears that are being seen by others are in areas that are heavily recreated and I think it's only a matter of time before there's an incidence with a bear and a person," Lutomski said.</em></p><p><em>The board initially voted down that amendment but later reconsidered and decided to allow a hunter one bear every four years, similar to the bag limits in other parts of Southeast. The fall season will be open in game management unit 3, namely Mitkof, Wrangell, Zarembo, Kupreanof and Kuiu islands.</em>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Pdvdh, post: 2601404, member: 4191"] There may be a few brown bear on Kupreanof Island, according to this 2019 article. I've "[I]cut and pasted a few sentences"[/I] from the article below. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.kfsk.org/2019/01/18/board-oks-fall-brown-bear-hunt-for-islands-near-petersburg-wrangell/[/URL] I've never hunted Southeast, and I have no inside information on brown bears on the Islands in GMU 3. But this article suggests some brown bear on these islands as of 3 years ago. "[I]The islands of game management unit 3 are home to smaller and less dangerous black bears. In the last few decades residents have reported sightings of the larger and more dangerous brown bears. Bears are able to walk and swim from the mainland to these islands. Petersburg hunter and former hunting guide Paul Lutomski told the board he's seen multiple bears on the island and believes there's a healthy population here. "A lot of these bears that are being seen by others are in areas that are heavily recreated and I think it's only a matter of time before there's an incidence with a bear and a person," Lutomski said. The board initially voted down that amendment but later reconsidered and decided to allow a hunter one bear every four years, similar to the bag limits in other parts of Southeast. The fall season will be open in game management unit 3, namely Mitkof, Wrangell, Zarembo, Kupreanof and Kuiu islands.[/I]" [/QUOTE]
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