18 MISC. PUBLICATION 19 5, U.S. DEPT. OP AGRICULTURE 



RESTRICTIONS ON THE USE OF OTHER RESOURCES 



Public-service sites are established as the need for anchorages, trail 

 terminals, portages, and other public uses develops in connection with 

 bear-management activities and general recreation. Such lands can- 

 not be patented but are held for public use. The principal public- 

 service sites so far established are (1) the head of Windfall Harbor 

 as a harbor and trail terminal for ingress to the interior of the island, 

 (2) portage between Young Bay and Hawk Inlet, and (3) portage 

 between Oliver Inlet and Seymour Canal. 



Logging camps will be so placed with reference to salmon streams 

 as to interfere as little as possible with bears on such streams during 

 the salmon-spawning season. 



In acting on application for homesteads, home sites, hunting-lodge 

 sites, and other forms of land occupancy or use at any point on the 

 island, consideration will be given to possible conflict with bears, 

 provided that no such application will be disapproved on this account 

 for lands in the vicinity of towns and other centers of year-long 

 human occupancy. Among such existing centers are Angoon, Tyee, 

 and Funter Bay. 



IMPROVEMENTS 



A system of trails, portages, and shelter cabins is being constructed 

 on areas of greatest recreational importance on the island as funds 

 permit. The first trails contemplated are those from tidewater of 

 Seymour Canal to the lakes in the interior of the island, short 

 portages to connect these lakes, and trails from the lakes to Mitchell 

 Bay and Chatham Strait. A trail is also proposed from the beach 

 of Seymour Canal to a point on Pack Creek for the use of those 

 wishing to observe the bears in this closed area. An observation 

 blind will be constructed on this creek at the same time. 



Shelter cabins, open on one side, are being constructed of logs at 

 desirable places on the trail system. A more elaborate cabin is to 

 be built on Hasselborg Lake at a point readily reached by airplane 

 and accessible to the trails in that locality. 



COOPERATION 



Special efforts will be made to obtain the cooperation of other 

 Federal and Territorial agencies, national and local game-protective 

 organizations, and the local general public in the protection of the 

 bears and other game animals of the island. 



PROTECTIVE LIMIT ON YEARLY KILL 



The bear-management plan contemplates that a good stocking of 

 the island shall be maintained indefinitely and, more particularly 

 at this time, that the present bear population, which was estimated 

 in 1932 at 900 animals, shall not be reduced. The most important 

 action to insure this result is to limit the yearly kill to a number 

 that does not exceed the yearly net increase. There are a number 

 of imperfectly known factors, especially in the life history of the 

 brown bear, that must be taken into account in determining the 

 number of births yearly in a given bear population. The propor- 

 tion of the cubs that survive and reach maturity is still also an open 



