than 200,000 bear hunters concentrated in such a small occupied bear range, it came. "In a one-day season that year, hunters killed about a third of the tagged bears within the population in only about 12 hours," Alt recalled. "Jim Lindzey was nervous. I was nervous, and all hell broke loose," Alt OCTOBER 2020 recalled. "As word spread, the Pennsylvania Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs became nervous and anti-hunters were coming at us to try and close the season." Biologist Bill Shope documented increased bear-hunting pressure in gametake survey work he was pioneering for the agency. In 1973, Pennsylvania had 37