This isn't true... When it comes to bears, Alaska gives you a choise, either take the meat OR take the hide no matter if it's a brown or a blk..

Some blk. bears are good to eat others aren't... it depends on what "they" have been eating... I eat them if their good and also have always taken the hides too... Same with big bears... Some are good, some aren't...

I won'tshoot a moose any longer, after many years of shooting them and eating the meat, i no longer care for the meat... My first choise is deer, second caribou.... BTW, if there's room ialways take those hides too...

DM