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The Quinault Indian Reservation has not been open to non-tribal hunting since established by the Treaty of Quinault River of 1855. 

Quinault Black Bear guided hunts are within the Quinault Reservation Boundaries located on the Washington coastline. Bears are attracted through various baiting techniques and harvested using your choice of high power rifles, pistols or archery equipment. I have guided Ted Nugent on a successful bear hunt which has premiered on the Spirit of the Wild program on the Outdoor Channel

Chitwhin means black bear in the Quinault language.  The Quinault people identify closely with the Chitwhin.  Naming their high school mascot, newspaper, and themselves as Chitwhins.  Historically black bear were traditionally hunted for food and their pelts by the peoples of the Quinault Nation.

Due to the current lack of intense hunting by the people of the Quinault Indian Nation and the abundant high quality habitat, you'll find black bear numbers on the Quinault Indian Reservation the highest anywhere in the Northwest.   Black bear populations on the Quinault Reservation are comparable to those found in Southeast Alaska and British Columbia.

Tribal hunters, hunt for meat and usually take a "fat" bear for food.   Each year black bears over 300 pounds dressed weight are harvested by Quinault hunters.  Bears over 500 pounds, with pelts squaring over 7' have been reportedly harvested.  In recent years annual tribal harvest averages less than 10-15 black bears per year.  This has allowed the black bear population to swell to near carrying capacity, with many bears reaching old age. 

There are near optimum habitat conditions for black bear on the Quinault Indian Reservation.  The abundant sockeye, Chinook, silver and chum salmon runs of the Quinault, Raft, Salmon, Queets, and Clearwater rivers provide abundant food for black bears during the fall spawning season. Also, the Quinault Indian Nation does not use herbicides on the forest harvest units.  This creates dense stands of salmon berry, evergreen huckleberry, salal, crabapple, cascara, and elderberry that provide abundant fruit crops for the black bear to fatten on each fall.