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several years ago feeding deer was legalized in my area since then there has been steady increase in our bear population. Is this increase due to A. food drawing in more bears or B. with a better food supply sows are having more young whats your take

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Registered: May 2006
Location: Gauley Bridge,Wv
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well probly lil bit of both but more then likey sows are have more cubs

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Registered: Jun 2003
Location: vt
Posts: 1256

if you feed them--and dont shoot them-

BOTH -- they will have more cubs when they go into hibernation fat- they will find and stay around any good food source-

it worked the opposite here - too many were being shot off "deer baits "

some would shoot them just because they were eating too much bait and deer wouldnt come out when bear were there-

it was illegal to shoot the bear in a baited area as long as i can remember but not enforced at all-

on years when natural feed is short , they were over harvested -

its illegal to run hounds in a baited area here and that is enforced -



i cant strike and run a bear --- if shes hanging around somebodys ' deer bait' -- or if they already shot her -
every female thats shot , hurts population a few years from now -


now its illegal here to bait or feed any big game during hunting season

im glad of it -

you would have to see the scale that bait was hauled to the woods around here- wasnt an apple tree anywhere with an apple left on it and people buying truck loads of cull apples -tons of grain etc --just got way out of hand --

now deer hunters planting food plots and i like that system alot better -

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