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Oakdale earns a top seed in regional football playoffs as hunters take nine bears in Frederick County
Garrett County hunters took most of Maryland's 89 bears
Source: CBS Baltimore
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Garrett | 61 |
| Washington | 10 |
| Allegany | 9 |
| Frederick | 9 |
If you follow Friday-night football, here's your bright spot: Oakdale, Frederick County's lone unbeaten high school team this season, earned a top seed in the regional playoffs. The MPSSAA released the brackets Monday, and the higher-seeded teams host the games.
Out in the woods, hunters took nine black bears in Frederick County during Maryland's annual hunt, the DNR announced Monday. The hunt ran Oct. 26 to 31 in four counties.
- Statewide harvest: 89 bears, 28 males and 61 females
- Five-year average: 95 bears
- Farmers with damage permits took 15 more, Aug. 15 to Oct. 27
- Bears usually start entering dens in mid-November
The hunt by the numbers
- 1,050
- permits awarded, from more than 4,800 applications
- 72%
- of bears taken on private land
- 156 lbs
- average weight of the bears taken
- 313 lbs
- estimated live weight of the largest bear, from Garrett County
Source: CBS Baltimore
The DNR's Karina Stonesifer said "low nighttime temperatures created beautiful morning and evening conditions ideal for bear hunting and a successful season." In late September, the DNR warned of more bear sightings this fall.
