| Show bears protected in vast territory in alaska alaskan bears have the benefit of protection on three types of sancta anes aries refuges established by execl tive orders closed areas under game law regulations and national parks and monuments mount mckinley national park and gatmai and glacier bay nation al monuments where all wild life is protected provide the bears with more than 5 acres of safe range I 1 acres on mount me mc kinley 2 on gatmai and 1164 on glacier bay the aleutian islands bird refuge includes the acre is land where bears occur and share the protection given all wild life through an executive order bears share with elk the protection at af forded by the acres of afoa nak island regulations under the alaska game law prevent bear hunting on eight additional areas totaling more than 1340 1 acres an area of over 1222 1 acres contiguous to glacier bay national monument and two areas on admiralty vath a corn com amed acreage of nearly 52 acres have been closed to bear hunting rhe admiralty island areas thay er mountain and pack creek in elude clude 38 and 13 acres re ively five other areas with an aggregate acreage of 66 have been closed to all hunting the corn com conly used names for these areas and their acreage are as follows ayak lake 21 mendenhall lake 5 alaska railroad 24 key stone canyon 4 and big delta regulations under the alaska game law protect the bears in other parts of the territory where hunt ng ing is of any consequence no hunt ing is permitted anywhere through out the summer season and during about five months of the open hunt ing season the bears are hi bernat mg ing the bag limit for large brown and grizzly bears is two a year ex capt on admiralty island where a limit of one has been made to in duce nonresident hunters to visit other areas sale of bear hides is prohibited a regulation that is con as one outstanding factor which has permitted an increase in the large brown and grizzly bears since this restriction was placed in effect when the original alaska game law was passed in 1920 there has been a perceptible change for the better in the brown and guzzle bear population |
