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Thursday Sept. 7, 1989

Griz hunt closes before season even opens

The man-caused killings of six grizzly bears in northwestern Montana so far this year has prompted the closing of one grizzly bear hunting area, the Flathead Bear Management Area, before the season has had a chance to open.

Each year, the state opens an area known as the Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem (NCDE) to a strictly controlled grizzly bear hunting season. Earlier this year, quotas for grizzly bears that could be killed or otherwise removed from the NCDE, were set at 14 grizzly bears, or six...

 

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