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Bear General Any Weapon Season

Unit 60A

8/30/2012 - 10/31/2012

Either-sex Black Bear bear info»
No female black bear accompanied by young may be taken. view all»
Any Weapon
Rifle, Archery, Muzzleloader, Shotgun, or Handgun. more»

Special Restrictions:
  • Dogs Prohibited.

Dogs prohibited Oct. 1 - Oct. 31

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Hunt Area

Unit 60A
All of Unit 60A. Area Size: 589,066 acres
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Statistics

General Season Harvest Statistics

Year Weapon Unit Hunters* Harvest Success% Days Boars Sows Fall Spring Bait
2011 Any Weapon 60A 4 2 2 4 3
2009 Any Weapon 60A 1 1 1
2008 Any Weapon 60A
2007 Any Weapon 60A
2006 Any Weapon 60A
2005 Any Weapon 60A
2004 Any Weapon 60A
2003 Any Weapon 60A
2002 Any Weapon 60A
2001 Any Weapon 60A
2000 Any Weapon 60A

Source: Mandatory Harvest Reports and Check Station Records
* In 2000 hunter information not collected.

Tags, Permits & Fees

Licenses, tags and permits may be purchased:

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Resident Tags, Permits & Fees

  • Adult Bear Tag $11.50 2012
  • Jr./Sr./DAV Bear Tag $6.75 2012
  • Hound Hunter Permit* $12.75 2012
  • Bear Bait Permit* $12.75 2012

NonResident Tags, Permits & Fees

  • Junior Mentored Bear Tag $23.75 2012
  • Adult Bear Tag $186.00 2012
  • Bear Bait Permit* $31.75 2012
  • Hound Hunter Permit* $169.75 2012

Note: A valid hunting license is required.

* Indicates this item is optional.

Landscape Characteristics and Access

Surface Management Agency

U.S. Forest Service (USFS) Graph illustrating 4.34% 4.34 %
Private Graph illustrating 43.38% 43.38 %
U.S. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) Graph illustrating 34.84% 34.84 %
U.S. National Wildlife Refuge Graph illustrating 0.05% 0.05 %
State of Idaho Graph illustrating 16.97% 16.97 %

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Surface Management Agency data source: Inside Idaho
*Surface Management Agency (a.k.a. Land Status) depicts categories for Federal and State agencies as well as Private lands in Idaho. For government land, this data displays the "managing agency" of the land, which may or may not be the same as the "owning agency" of the land. SMA is sometimes referred to as "ownership", although this term is inaccurate when describing public lands.

Access Yes! Properties

Access Yes! is Fish & Game program designed to improve sportsmen's access to private land or through private land to public land by compensating willing landowners who provide access.

Forest Service Land

Check for road and area closures on National Forest websites

No National Forest lands overlap this hunt area.

Federally-designated Wilderness Areas

There are no wilderness areas in this hunt.

Land Use/Land Cover

Rangeland Graph illustrating 79.08% 79.08 %
Urban Graph illustrating 0.22% 0.22 %
Irrigated-Sprinkler Graph illustrating 11.54% 11.54 %
Irrigated-Gravity Flow Graph illustrating 8.63% 8.63 %
Forest Graph illustrating 0.01% 0.01 %
Riparian Graph illustrating 0.52% 0.52 %

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Land Use data source: IDWR

Weather

The Weather Channel * Weather data provided by The Weather Channel®.

Outfitters and Guides

Local Bear Outfitters & Guides

No local hunting outfitters are licensed for Bear.

No pack trip outfitters are available in Unit 60A.

*In need of a Guide? Try our Idaho Outfitter Guide, which allows you to search all licensed outfitters by species, activity and location.

Services

Lodging, Camping, Restaurants & Other Services

* Services pages courtesy of the Official Idaho Travel and Tourism Guide

Getting There

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