SW Bear Question

ElkMaster78 · 01-21-2008, 02:32 PM

I have hunted SW bear for a few years with great success, but I have been traveling all the way down past Bandon. I was wondering if the bear population is better, same or worse in the northen part of the SW unit. I should be hunting in the west blues this year but the girl friend wants a bear for her house. Just seeing if I can save a few gallons of diesel and still get into a lot of bears.
Thanks
Tony

beardbuster · 01-21-2008, 02:50 PM

From what I understand, they are pretty much all over the place. I talk to many people and everyone hunts in a different spot with great success.

ElkMaster78 · 01-21-2008, 02:58 PM

Kinda what I thought. Thanks
Tony

Santiam338 · 01-21-2008, 03:07 PM

Everything from the Siuslaw to the Umpqua is all mine...

marked trail · 01-21-2008, 03:54 PM

The population maps produced by the ODFW are public info. It's no secret, so here goes, spilling the beans on a 'secret spot' again. Maybe, not so secret???

You have these maps, don't you. They were produce with YOUR tax money the Pittman-Robertson excise tax on sporting guns and ammo. That the 11% tax on your bullets and firearms, that US Department of Interior collects and distributes to the State game departments for research on game species. TIP: Get to know these researchers!

If you don't have these maps, you are shooting your self in the foot at best, and at the least wasting a lot of fuel.

To answer your question directly, even if you are too lazy to find out for yourself by making a phone call or going to your ODFW office, the ODFW maps show an extremely high poulation of blackies around Scottsburg just beyond the main highway bridge over the Umpqua, say a 5-10 mile radius or less in the Suislaw and Tioga units.

Bring extra shoes, because someone like you is bound by April 25th to step in the bear dung just getting out of your vehicle.

scottishsetter · 01-21-2008, 04:58 PM

Oh Isn't that the tax on hunters and others who buy outdoor equipment since the 1930's that totals double digit Billions? Yeah. Get those maps,[note to self].

Fish_N_Russ · 01-22-2008, 01:00 AM

There are tons of bears in and around Florence.......one of the retirement communities in town has 19 of them alone. Come summer time me and the wife like to drive backroads near dusk to 'bear watch'...almost always we see at least one along the road or out in a field. So, yeah there are some down here

marked trail · 01-22-2008, 06:04 AM

Yep.
Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Act, better know as the Pittman-Robertson Act after its principal sponsors, Senator Key Pittman of Nevada and then-Representative A. Willis Robertson of Virginia. The PR measure was signed into law by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on September 2, 1937.

About 26 percent of "P-R" funding to the States is used for surveys and research, which have substituted science for guesswork in wildlife restoration. Surveys, now employing computers and space-age technology, provide solid information on the location and activities of species, the makeup of their population by age and sex, and whether their numbers are rising and declining - essential data in managing the species and its habitat. Most hunters are quite proud that they pay the wildlife restoration bills, unlike most preservationists.

Just get the bare (or in this case 'Bear') facts!

ElkMaster78 · 01-22-2008, 01:28 PM

So we can just stop by ODFW office and pick the pop maps up for free?
Tony

ommedia · 01-22-2008, 01:35 PM

Yea until Scott H. basically mapped out your area to everyone in two magazines last year...lol

Quote:

Originally Posted by Santiam338

Everything from the Siuslaw to the Umpqua is all mine...

marked trail · 01-22-2008, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by ElkMaster78

So we can just stop by ODFW office and pick the pop maps up for free?
Tony

Roseburg office of ODFW would be a good bet to start. Your best source is the ODFW guy in Gold Beach. This map of bear population density was given to each successful applicant for a SW controlled spring bear tag. The year was '03 , perhaps '04.

Mike P. · 01-22-2008, 07:49 PM

Used to be alot of bears around that general area...went down hill the past few years in my opinion as hunting pressure went up substantially.

Quote:

Originally Posted by marked trail

The population maps produced by the ODFW are public info. It's no secret, so here goes, spilling the beans on a 'secret spot' again. Maybe, not so secret???

You have these maps, don't you. They were produce with YOUR tax money the Pittman-Robertson excise tax on sporting guns and ammo. That the 11% tax on your bullets and firearms, that US Department of Interior collects and distributes to the State game departments for research on game species. TIP: Get to know these researchers!

If you don't have these maps, you are shooting your self in the foot at best, and at the least wasting a lot of fuel.

To answer your question directly, even if you are too lazy to find out for yourself by making a phone call or going to your ODFW office, the ODFW maps show an extremely high poulation of blackies around Scottsburg just beyond the main highway bridge over the Umpqua, say a 5-10 mile radius or less in the Suislaw and Tioga units.

Bring extra shoes, because someone like you is bound by April 25th to step in the bear dung just getting out of your vehicle.