They are not overpopulated in my area either, mainly because I harvest enough each year to keep the population in check.

To answer you questions KP....

1. In mine and a lot of areas spot and stalk is pretty much impossible. It's very thick and the probability of seeing a bear without bait is next to none.

2. I don't understand what this question has to do with baiting bears. The only thing I can decipher from your question was probably answered by my response to question 1.

3.Hmmmmmm, I believe your original statement said that adding bait increases their population. I disagreed with that. Plus,I never said that baiting decreases the population except for the fact it is used to hunt over.


Now I just want to point something out, so don't get PO'd. You said you were ignorant on the subject. So, you never should have posted anything on this topic except for questions. Instead, you posted some of your ill-advised assumptions on bear hunting and populations. Those are the kind of things that drive me nuts about this forum, people posting without any knowledge of what they are talking about, just assumptions. It's not just you KP, its a ton of other people here too.