Purchase Your License

Purchase Your License

License Prices

Black Bear License Fee List

This Online Electronic Licensing System provides for the sale of most licenses, permits and stamps. Your purchase is not complete until you have paid for the selected products by credit card and have received a receipt. Once the purchase is complete, you may return at any time to make another purchase. All sales are final.

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Black Bear Seasons

2012 Black Bear Hunting Seasons

Black bears are hunted during the spring and fall in Wyoming's mountain ranges. Baiting is legal outside designated wilderness and grizzly areas in Wyoming in some hunt areas. Bait type may be restricted in those areas open to baiting.

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Black Bear Hunt Areas

2013 Black Bear Hunt Area Map
Black Bear Hunting Area Descriptions

Hunter harvest within individual hunt areas is regulated through a female mortality quota. Once the quota is reached, the season closes. It is the hunter's responsibility to determine if an area is still open prior to hunting
by calling the black bear area mortality quota hotline
at (800) 264-1280.

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Hunting Information

Black Bear Hunting Information
Black Bear Hunting Brochure
Important Hunting Information

Once a bear is harvested, the license holder must present the unfrozen pelt and skull within 72 hours to a local warden or biologist or at any of the WGFD offices during normal business hours for registration and the collection of two premolar teeth.

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