Bear hunting bought out?

Raincoast Conservation Foundation is acquiring the guide-outfitting hunting rights to five areas along the central BC coast

Jokes on them at $1.4M, by law they must allow some hunting or the goverment can seize the rights and put them back on the market.

Usually I hunt bear with a camera, but I have taken a couple in the past. Personally, I don't like bear as it is too strong tasting and greasy for my taste. However, a couple neighbours love the stuff, so it was donated to them, while I kept the pelts and skulls (one of which I donated to the Museum of Man and Nature).

I did, and I do think what they did was noble. However, I do know the rights they purchase have clause. One of which is that there must be some hunting. The intent of the law was to prevent a form of hording certain key land rights. Although the government may not be thrilled, it may be compelled to enforce that law if they do not have some form of hunting. Should be interesting how it plays out.

Conservationists pay more than $1 million to end bear hunt

Proof that even if you pay a fortune for land you don't actually really truely own it.....

Although I'm sure that the RCS and Sierra Club's lawyers are working on it as we speak........

The first rule of bear hunting...is to always take someone with you...who runs slower then you do.

What they have bought is the guiding rights to the area. I can, as a BC resident, buy my hunting licence and go hunt there, following the BC hunting regs, all I want. Now, what does their buying the guiding rights mean to the hunting, that non resident hunters, that are required to be guided, won't be hunting there. The big money trophy hunters from Europe, the US and Japan (That's right Japan) won't be able to hunt. The area is rather remote and you just can't drive in and go hunting. It requires big boats and a fair chunk of cash to finance a hunting trip into this area that most resident hunters can't do. The total hunting preasure on the area will go down by probably 75% or even more. Most resident hunters in BC don't target grizzle bear anyway, the reason they bought the area. Really the Grizzle isn't worth hunting for the meat, not great table fair and the far more abundant black bear tastes better. So the only reason to hunt them is the "trophy" aspect which in this hunters opinion is a waste of a great animals life.