” The goal of this plan is to recover the brown bear population and future sustainable hunting opportunity. The plan does that by temporarily reducing hunting mortality through a harvest cap and by seeking to reduce human-bear conflict that results in bear mortalities through educational outreach by ADF&G and our partners.”

With limited population data, the department has set a harvest quota at 3 bulls based on historic sustainable harvest. As of September 20, 2024, 4 bulls have been taken in this hunt. No further harvest is warranted from this population.