Cumberland Times-News

Bears prefer certain autos
For seven years, the top choice of vehicle by black bears in Yosemite National Park has been the minivan. The bears seem to base this decision on “fuel efficiency”—that is, which vehicle offers the best opportunity of finding a meal. As a result, black bears have shown a strong preference for breaking into minivans over other types of vehicles.
Gorge properties to be sold at auction
A Virginia company will oversee the auction of more than 4,400 acres in West Virginia’s New River Gorge, including timber tracts and hunting grounds.
Turned out for field day
Rockfish numbers down a little in Md.
The Maryland Department of Natural Resources announced that 2009 Young-of-the-Year Striped Bass Survey was a 7.9 catch per haul this year, slightly below the long term average of 11.7. DNR has used the same techniques for the survey for 50 years to show the yearly spawning success for rockfish.
Display your Keystone State license on your back
The omissionin this year’s hunting digest of a regulation that has been in place for decades has caused some hunters and trappers to wonder whether they still are required to display their licenses in the middle of the back as has been done for many, many years. Pennsylvania Game Commission Executive Director Carl G. Roe answered, “Yes, it still needs to be displayed.”
Park has hunting sites for disabled
A lottery that will allow disabled hunters to hunt for deer in Rocky Gap State Park on the Saturdays during the firearms season will take place Nov. 23 at 2 p.m.
Bear harvest at 63; hunt will continue
Maryland’s black bear hunt will continue today as hunters had killed 63 bears as of 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Bear season begins
Preparation for the Maryland bear season, which opens tomorrow, has been fun.
Rogue River dam gone, finally
The wild and scenic Rogue River has become even wilder with the demolition of a dam that had hindered passage of salmon and steelhead to their spawning grounds for 88 years.
Maryland autumn turkey count looks to be pretty good
Maryland’s fall turkey hunting begins Saturday and continues through Nov. 7.
Success
Diana Joy, Little Orleans, bagged her first deer with a bow and arrow when she dropped this buck on Oct. 1 hunting in eastern Allegany County.
Don’t count on pepper spray
Mike,
The letter from Michael Wagman from Annapolis (Use pepper spray, not guns, Oct. 11), I’d like to comment on it with something that happened to me several years ago.
Turkey chapter slates banquet
Turkey chapter slates banquet
Bear Watch - October 25, 2009
33 road-killed bears
New hunt pressure, success minimal
Hunting pressure and success during the new September bow and muzzleloader seasons in West Virginia appears to have been light, according to Division of Natural Resources Wildlife Biologist Gary Foster, though the real numbers won’t be known until December.
350-pound bear kills Pa. woman
For nine years, Kelly Ann Walz kept the black bear she called “Teddy” as a pet, raising it from cubhood at her hilltop menagerie where she also cared for a mountain lion and tiger.
Cabelas stuffs Chadron college full of mounts of various wildlife species
Chadron State College officials are glad they decided to ask Cabela's for a taxidermy donation because the outdoor outfitter responded with an offer of 65 display pieces.
Big Fish
These anglers are among those fishermen recently recognized by the West Virginia Division of Natural Resources for catching trophy sized fish in the Mountain State.
Feds charge bear hunters; Alaska doesn’t
While camera-toting wildlife viewers watched in dismay Oct. 3, two hunters opened fire on a juvenile brown bear that had been fishing in the Kenai River, next to a Sterling Highway bridge.

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