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...It's not illegal for hunters to take them because the tags sometimes can be hard to spot, but bear biologist Dave Garshelis is urging hunters to refrain from shooting them. He says researchers have invested an enormous amount of time and...
...bears. The DNR is currently monitoring about 40 radio-collared bears, according to DNR bear research biologist Dave Garshelis. Most are in the area of the Chippewa National Forest, Camp Ripley Military Reservation, and near Voyageurs National...
...at 7 p.m. at the Fifty Lakes Foundation, Crow Wing County Road 1 and South Eagle Lake Road, in Fifty Lakes. Dave Garshelis, DNR bear project manager and adjunct professor with the University of Minnesota, will discuss the contrast between...
...Minnesota's 2001 bear hunting season, harvest numbers are up as much as 20 percent, said DNR bear project leader Dave Garshelis. The spike comes at a time when biologists say the state's bear population is at an all-time high -- about 30...
...the DNR said. DNA samples of hair from that bear and from the one that attacked Kim Heil-Smith matched, said Dave Garshelis, DNR bear project leader in Grand Rapids. Moore and Heil-Smith live about 1,000 yards apart on Devil Track Lake...
...likely that this bear attacked because it was suddenly surprised by the researcher and then became defensive," said Dave Garshelis, a DNR bear biologist. "Normally in such a defensive attack the bear may huff, slap the ground and look very intimidating...
...impetus to sail into uncharted waters, to seek new harvest methods that previously would have been unacceptable. Said Dave Garshelis, DNR bear project leader in Grand Rapids: "Our goal is to stabilize the population and (hunting with hounds...
...attack recorded in Minnesota occurred in 1987, when a bear attacked campers in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area, said Dave Garshelis, a bear biologist with the state Department of Natural Resources. Becker was part of a team studying the effects...
...would effect the Chippewa and Superior national forests, where 15 percent of Minnesota's bear hunters hunt, said Dave Garshelis, DNR bear project leader. "Those forests have some of the prime bear hunting areas in the state," Garshelis said...
...Biologists view baiting as the most effective way to hunt bears in Minnesota because of the state's heavy vegetation. Dave Garshelis, the DNR's chief bear biologist, agrees the wild food issue may favor bear hunters this fall. "The people I've...