SOUTH CHARLESTON, W.Va. — A concurrent bear season without the use of dogs will occur Nov. 19 through Dec. 1 in eight counties, according to Colin Carpenter, black bear project leader for the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources.
Boone, Fayette, Hampshire, Kanawha, Monongalia, Morgan, Preston and Raleigh counties will be open for bear hunting during the traditional buck gun season. This is an increase from the seven counties in 2011.
“Counties that will be open for bear hunting during the buck gun season are above their management objective and need to have additional bears harvested,” said Carpenter. “In addition, timing is critical when setting bear hunting seasons, and the concurrent buck gun and bear seasons will occur when the maximum number of hunters are in the woods. The larger-than-average hard mast crop of 2012 will mean that hunters will have to find specific areas where bears are feeding to be successful. These special seasons offer a unique opportunity for hunters who may have never hunted for bear before to harvest a bear.”
Bear hunting opportunities abound after the buck gun season as well. All or parts of 24 counties will be open for bear hunting with or without hounds Dec. 3–31. In addition, all or parts of 37 counties will be open for bear hunting without hounds Dec. 3–31.
Successful hunters are encouraged to submit a premolar tooth from each bear. In addition, hunters who harvest a female black bear are encouraged to save the reproductive tract or all the entrails. Hunters can get a bear tooth envelope at all official game checking stations. Hunters with reproductive tracts or entrails should keep them cool or freeze them and contact their nearest DNR District Wildlife Office to arrange pickup. Data obtained from tooth samples and reproductive tracts are used for black bear population monitoring.
Outdoors
Hunt bear, deer at same time in West Virginia
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Canaan now has sporting clay range
A new
sporting clays, five-stand
clay target field is set to
open in West Virginia at
Canaan Valley Resort
State Park during Memorial
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Fishing rodeo set
The 65th
Annual Fishing Rodeo for
the physically impaired
will take place June 8
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. at
the Cumberland Outdoor
Club property on state
Route 51 just south of Oldtown. -
MARYLAND BIRDS
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Broadwater wins at Redding
Team Easton’s Jesse Broadwater, an
Allegany County resident, made history recently by becoming
the first archer to shoot 139 out of 140 — dropping only
one point — and smashing the previous record of five points
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‘Somebody flipped the switch’
The number of bears to die
on Maryland roadways this
year has risen to nine since
April 11, according to the
unofficial count maintained
by the Cumberland Times-
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W.V. apprentice hunting license circumvents safety
This is the first of a two-part series about the
West Virginia apprentice hunting license and
hunter recruitment. See the Outdoors page of
May 26 for the second part. -
FEATHERED NIRVANA
They’ve started, you know. The gobbler seasons.
Well, actually, one has, that being Maryland, and two will, one in West Virginia tomorrow and then another in Pennsylvania soon after that. -
What Maryland’s new firearms laws will mean to you
The following information that deals with the impacts of the Firearms Safety Act of 2013 (Senate Bill 281), that will become law in October, was sent to the Times-News by State Delegate Wendell Beitzel.
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Nugent alive, not jailed
Fans of Ted Nugent, who calls himself Uncle Ted as well as the Motor City Madman, are likely rejoicing.
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Junior Hunter Field Day set
A Junior Hunter Field Day will take place May 11, 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., for ages 8-16, at the Midland Sportsman’s Club.
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