Bear hunt apps deadline

[Lee Borgersen]

Bear hunt applications available; deadline is May 3

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Applications for bear hunting licenses are being accepted now through Friday, May 3, wherever Minnesota hunting and fishing licenses are sold, online at mndnr.gov/buyalicense, and by telephone at 888-665-4236.

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A total of 3,400 licenses are available in 13 permit areas. Bear licenses cost $44 for residents and $230 for nonresidents, and there is a $5 application fee. The 2019 season is open from Sunday, Sept. 1, through Sunday, Oct. 13.


Lottery winners will be notified by June 1. The deadline to purchase licenses awarded by lottery will be Thursday, Aug. 1. Any remaining non purchased licenses will be available over the counter starting at noon on Tuesday, Aug. 6.

An unlimited number of bear licenses will be sold over-the-counter for the no-quota area that includes east-central and far northwestern Minnesota. No-quota licenses are valid only in the no-quota area. Hunters with a no-quota license can harvest one bear.

The DNR has set 2019 bear permit numbers for quota areas to allow bear population numbers to gradually increase and support a robust bear population.

Bear hunting information is available on the DNR website at mndnr.gov/hunting/bear.

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[deadeye]

I haven't figured out yet who it is but there is an group pressuring the DNR to limit (or stop) bear hunting in Minnesota.  This is the reason for the very limited number of tags issued.  Last year in area 45 there was one bear killed for every 80 square miles.  I could easily document 5-6 different bear just on my property alone.   

[Boar]

they wont ever stop it,they will become to much of a nuesence than they can be now and then the screaming will start loud and people will take thing into their own hands much like the farmers over here.

[glenn57]

they wont ever stop it,they will become to much of a nuesence than they can be now and then the screaming will start loud and people will take thing into their own hands much like the farmers over here.

problem is bud.........these yackoffs that do all the screaming to stop these hunts dont live in areas these critter inhabit.