A word on bear management in alaska

In many areas of Alaska, with the exception of the federal national parks, brown bears are hunted for sport and as part of the State of Alaska's "predator control program". Hunters can use bait, shoot bears in their den, chase them down on snowmobiles and use night vision and thermal imaging goggles to kill bears. In addition to making it easy to kill bears, there are many areas where it is legal to kill bears year round. This liberal killing of bears is not sustainable for an apex species which only reproduces every 4 years.

Currently, the State of Alaska Board of Game is fighting to continue its aerial cull program in which it has already shot over 200 brown bears, including females and cubs. The only entity which has fought this program, the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, has forced them to quit for now. For more information about the bear cull and to see what the Alaska Wildlife Alliance has done- and is continuing to do to protect our bears, please look at this link.