The uppity dinks at Safari Club International are into that kinda stuff
~Jeff~

http://www.safariclub.org/

I'll take JUDGEMENTAL for a thousand, Alex.

Ya know its sad that you feel that way. Because those "uppity dinks" are donating a lot of time, effort, and money, to combat the liberal media and gun control lobbyists. They are one of very few organizations that is fighting to protect your and my right to hunt. So Jeff, keep on calling us names and sitting on your hands while we do the hard work for you. the next time your hunting think of us.

I've heard the number range from 27-31, depending on what is protected and what the author considers a "species". Here is a list, but I personally know their is no species distinction between, say a "desert mule deer" and a "mule deer", or a grizzly and brown bear.

This list contains 29.

If anybody has any others or has corrections to this list, please post. One that should be on here is the Manitoba elk, however I believe it is unhuntable... Ditto for the polar bear.
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Brown bear
Yukon caribou
Yukon moose
Mountain goat
Bison
Rocky Mountain elk
Mule deer
Shiras moose
Coues deer (aka coues whitetail)
Desert Bighorn
Desert Mule Deer (a mule deer in the desert, go figure...)
Pronghorn (aka Antelope)
Whitetail deer
Black bear
Mountain caribou
Rocky Mountain Bighorn
Roosevelt elk
Stone sheep
Barren-ground caribou
Central Canada moose
Dall sheep
Grizzly bear (aka brown bear)
Muskox
Columbia black deer (aka blacktail)
Cougar
Tule elk
Eastern Canada moose
Labrador caribou
Woodland caribou

I think we are still hunting Polar bears that qualify. The fee's involved keep it reserved for a special class of hunters.

Here is a recent article on how the population is doing.
Hunters in Nunavut are celebrating an increase in the polar bear quota for 2005,
Polar bears shot in such hunts, usually by free-spending American hunters, can bring in between $20,000 and $35,000 apiece in terms of economic spinoffs.

Alaska Hunting Safaris offers a rather interesting opportunity for those eager to bring home a polar bear.

Its my understand that you can't import polar bears into the country. they are on the endangered species list and customs will not give a CITES permit to import them. I also understand that polar bears can be hunted in canada but what good would it do to kill one if you can't bring it home?

Nunavunt hunts have gone back in forth over the last decade, I believe they were shut down for awhile. I know they are on CITES too; however I'm guessing that if you can show that it was a government sanctioned hunt (as the Nunavunt hunts are) you may be able to import.

I'm no expert on CITES at all; however wouldn't it also be able illegal to bring a Brown Bear from Alaska (or Canada) into the lower 48, since they are on CITES as well?

I'm certainly no expert either. All I have is anecdotal evidence. I know a fellow who got a sweetheart of a deal to hunt polar bear. Goes up kills a real monster. Now he can't get it home. That was this last year. He hunted in canada obviously and its at a taxidermy shop in canada unable to bring it into the states.