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bears) of the total harvest. !

The archery harvest of 425 ; bears made up 26 percent of • the total harvest. Reflecting! their increasing popularity,; crossbows accounted for 381 percent of the entire archery! harvest of bears. The four-day | muzzleloading season; accounted for 90 bears, 6 per-! cent of the total harvest. This ; was down 38 percent from J last year but in line with the year before that. The 2006- j 2007 regular firearms harvest! of 1,118 bears was a 14 per-; cent increase over last season. Dog hunters accounted for about 50 percent of the regular firearms harvest and about ■ 33 percent of the total bears taken.

The black bear harvest was comprised of 35 percent females, which is consistent with the long-term average of 37 percent of the annual harvest being female.

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