Just my opinion here, but if these areas are so remote (VERY few hunams ever get there), why is the state of AK so concerned with bears reducing moose calf numbers?
Nature has a natural cycle. If there are too many of one animal, another animals numbers increase and feed on the first. When animal #2 numbers are reduced to a point, animal #1 starves or dies from desease and thier numbers decrease. Checks and balances.
Now some folks may say, "then why allow hunting?" Because of the "DISNEY" mentallity that all wild creatures must take on fluffy animated HUMAN qualities, and we can't allow nature to be so crude and let "INNOCENT animals die that way.
The sale of bear skins WILL NOT reduce bear numbers in the targeted area! The sale of gall bladders will not do it either.
A bounty in an amout to offset the helocopter transportation into these areas might help. A bonus (from the state of AK) to Guides and outfitters for taking thier clients into these areas to hunt bear would help. Both of these would allow higher kill rates in a specific area.
Man's management plans can NOT come from colledge educated thinkers!
It has been proven that does not work...