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This paper reports techniques developed to live trap and handle brown bears on the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge. The brown bears Ursus middendorffi on the Kodiak National Wildlife Refuge, Kodiak Island, Alaska have been subject to heavy hunting pressure for the past decade. The refuge still produces the worlds largest bears but in order to continue maximum trophy production, more information is required on movements, growth rates, productivity, survival and other life history data. Presented at the 12th Alaska Science Conference, University of Alaska, College, August 31, 1961.