Topic: Tennessee's Best Bear Hunting Areas (Read 567 times)
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Tennessee's Best Bear Hunting Areas « Thread Started on Apr 12, 2006, 5:58pm »
Tennessee's Best Bear Hunting Areas
The last key step to developing what bear hunters are seeing today was the creation of bear sanctuaries. There were four initially created in 1974 with two more including the Great Smokey Mountains National Park added in 1997. These six sanctuaries give black bears more than 450,000 acres of safe haven.
As for early-season success among the three counties of Blount, thingye and Sevier, Brandenburg said thingye County is probably Tennessee's strongest bear producer. Monroe County is also a strong candidate, but the hunting situation there is different because of the party hunts held in that area. Brandenburg also likes what he sees out of Greene County, calling it a really good bear county. As for a dark horse, he'd have to go with Unicoi County.
thingye County remains strong from season to season with a harvest almost guaranteed to be among the highest. A lot also has to be said for Monroe and Polk counties as well as Sevier because of their consistent production of good bear harvests. In looking at the 10-year data, Tennessee bear hunters have failed to take at least 100 bears in only one season.
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