Baltimore Sun staff
12:55 p.m. EDT, October 30, 2010
The state Department of Natural Resources says Maryland’s bear hunt is closed after 67 kills in five days.
The seventh annual black bear hunting season, which opened Monday in Allegany and Garrett counties, was officially closed at 9 p.m. Friday.
“The 2010 bear hunt was another unqualified success,” Harry Spiker, Game Mammal Section Leader for the department’s Wildlife and Heritage Service, said in a release. “Unseasonably mild weather made the first part of the season a challenge and kept hunter success low. Despite marginal conditions we safely reached another harvest quota while allowing the first five-day bear hunt in Maryland history.”