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If you wisely purchase and carry a brown bear locking tag each year (it's cheap insurance), and you are in an area which doesn't have special permit requirements, it's perfectly legal to harvest an aggressive or opportunistic brown bear while protecting harvested game meat.

In fact there is a little known reality involving brown bears that I wish all Alaskan hunters knew. While it is unlawful to harvest a brown bear over bait IT IS COMPLETELY LEGAL TO HARVEST A BROWN BEAR OVER THE GUTPILE OF LEGALLY HARVEST GAME, OR NATURALLY KILLED CARRION, as long as you are legally licensed and permitted in the area of the hunt, and you don't move the gutpile.

So after harvesting your moose or caribou, hang around for a few days to see if you can thin out the bear population. Dead whale on the beach? Hang around for a few days (upwind, of course) and thin out the predators in the area. It works better than land-and-shoot. My experience is that gutpiles need about 3 days of ripening for the bears to be interested. Usually it will be the 3rd or 4th morning when they arrive.

This also works for wolves.

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        • or when you're fishing . . . Forestar Oct 17 2003