"Dave LaCourse" wrote in message
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It is illegal to shoot a brown bear in the Katmai.
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Dave

Not entirely true. A legal hunt in the Katmai occurred at about the same
time you wrote the above. About Oct. 1 this year, while I was in Alaska, I
read a front page article in the Anchorage paper about someone who had
videotaped one of the legal hunts in order to bring into question whether
hunts for human acclimated bears could be considered "fair chase". The tapes
even caused the biologist who had authorized the hunts to question his
decision.

Bob Weinberger