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[Blkram]

Gil that's an invitation I just might take you up on if I can convince the wife to sleep in a tent.

Reflecting back earlier in this post Cheyenne commented about the many uses of the animals harvested. Sounds somewhat like what we did when we butchered hogs and all parts were used and nothing wasted. I would snack on fried cracklings and swipe a piece of kidney out of the head meat pot when know one was looking. Boy those were the days.

Roger, anytime...and you can reassure your wife that depending on what you are hunting for, she may not have to tent it. There are other options in the region; hotels, open camps, or rv's.

My wife also likes cracklings and cannot wait to get her first bear so that she can have some again!

 

[Blkram]

Dan, look forward to hunting with you again!

Gerry, we will need to stay in touch and coordinate that hunt in 2018. And we will need to get some fishing in too! Susan liked the posts that you and Dan shared last year and is looking forward to it.
She is going to be in Prince Rupert later this spring for business, as am I. We are just hoping to coordinate for the same time. Would love to meet up with you and your wife.

 

[gerry]

Absolutely Gil just let us know when you will be here. You guys are welcome to stay with us when you are in Terrace, we have lots of room.

I hope Dan and Nettie will be able to make it back here to one day. Just need to get that young feller DrMike to come for a visit

 

[DrMike]

Careful, now. I just may make the trip over one day soon. It has been some time since I last tangled with a nice Chinook or Coho (or Pink or Sockeye or Chum or Steelhead or... You get the Idea).

 

[sask boy]

DrMike, I hope you do get up there one day soon :wink: those Salmon give you a great fight and they do not taste to bad either :lol:.
Gerry advised that my smoked Dog Salmon will be heading east soon can't wait to enjoy that again .

Blessings,
Dan

 

[Africa Huntress]

Gerry

That is a beautiful bear, wow!

When you get a tag to hunt black bears, does that tag automatically allow you to hunt that color of a bear, since technically it is a black bear ?

Best Regards

Jamila

 

[DrMike]

Any black bear, Jamila, except if it is a Kermode or a Glacier bear.

 

[6mm Remington]

I'd love to see that country one day where Cheyenne lives and get to experience it. I enjoy her posts and what she and our other female counterparts bring to the table.

 

[gerry]

Gerry

That is a beautiful bear, wow!

When you get a tag to hunt black bears, does that tag automatically allow you to hunt that color of a bear, since technically it is a black bear ?

Best Regards

Jamila

DrMike is correct the Kermode bear and glacier bear of the far north western corner of B.C. are closed to hunting. We see one here about every 2 years or so it seems sometimes more often. They are a beautiful bear, the pictures don't always show it properly but they often have some orange on the head and shoulders too.

 

[Africa Huntress]

Gerry and Dr Mike, thank you for the information. I have seen white lions but never a white bear.

Gil, do these bears carry any special meaning to the First Nation people ?

Hodgeman, Gerry, if I understand correctly. The Kermode is in B.C. and the Glacier is in Alaska, or are they both in both places. Do they have any other differences from the black bear except color ? Are they size wise, more the size of a black bear or brown bear ( grizzly ) ?

They are beautiful

 

[Blkram]

Jamila,

The Kermode bear does have significance for First Nations people's along the coast, but unfortunately I am not aware of the exact significances for the various tribes.

Both the Kermode (for the most part) and Glacier bears are black bears, with special names as they only appear in very specific areas. They just have regionally specific genetic traits that give them a different colour. Although there have been a few Kermode grizzly bears, I do not believe that they are as numerous or widespread as the white black bears along the northwest coast of BC and the southwest coast of Alaska. Gerry would probably be able to shed more light on this as he is local to that area, and I only spent a year there. I have never heard of a Glacier grizzly, but do not know if this genetic trait may occur in Grizzlies or not.

The whitish black bear that I photographed in the Chinchaga Lakes area of northwestern BC, was not completely whitish in colour (actually closer to the colour of evaporated milk, more creamy than white); the paws and lower legs of the bear were a cinnamon colour about 6-8" above the ankle on all four legs. There had been a few other sightings of one or two other pinto-coloured black bears in the area, but this was the only one I was able to determine that was almost completely solid in colour. When I checked with the Conservation Officer Service of the Ministry of Environment, they were not even aware of these bears existing in that area, and could not answer any questions on whether they could be Kermode or not. All they could tell me was Kermode Bears were not allowed to be hunted.

As far as significance for them in our culture, I know that there is special medicine in albino/white animals, of which the white buffalo is the most powerful and known. This one is shared among many different tribes. I really need to ask the elders more about the other animals. I do know that some are off-limits (like Cheyenne indicated about with the otter, and for us it is owls) while others are ok to harvest for certain ceremonial purposes, but not sure which and for what (as some of this information is only kept or allowed to be known by the medicine men, and cannot be shared with others within the tribe, or to outsiders).