Black bear in Louisiana

I talked to Maria Davidson last year. Very interesting person & most biologists would be against hunting a species that has come back but she actually wants to get a season on them. She was telling me that the bears are expanding their habitat & the young bears are leaving looking for new territory. Of course the bad news would be, that it probably would not be with dogs, but she is very pro dogs.
I actually contacted her x husband Paul Davidsson a few years ago about problem bears & asked what they did with them. He said if they had a collar on them it was no problem to track to them & tranq. them & remove them. But if they did not, the bear would do his damage & move on. I volunteered my services & they were receptive to the idea but the problem is that when a bear is causing trouble it is normally in a populated area with a lot of roads.
They actually got a couple of blackmouth curs to run the bears off of some areas & they wanted short distance dogs. Honest, I am not making that up.lol
When they were restocking the La. bear program, they imported bear in from Mn. Maria says she can tell at a glance, even to this day, if a bear has Mn. gene. They are blockier & have much more hair, even bred down.
Last year a 300# boar bear was run over just south of Baton rouge & every year one or two make the news traveling through Mandeville, Covington are.