MN DNR asks hunters not to harvest tagged bears during hunting season

Fergus Falls, Minn. (KBRF) – The Minnesota DNR is reminding hunters not to harvest marked research bears when the season opens on September 1st. Project leader Andy Tri says the bears with GPS radio collars all have large cattle-style ear tags.

He says “It is legal to shoot a collared bear, but we ask that folks do not because we’re working on a phase of this study that requires the bears to go from cubs all the way to their first reproduction. And so it takes a long time – five or six years of constant monitoring – to get that information.”)

Tri says most of the 40 radio-collared bears are in the Brainerd, Little Falls, and Grand Rapids areas. The state had the highest number of bear license applicants this year since 2001.

Detroit Lakes , MN (KDLM)-

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