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Unfortunately, many wont take the bear problem seriously until the child of a high-profile family is killed. The bears are dangerous. My family has lived in the same town for generations and there was an implied respect between the few bears we had and us. Now, there are so many bears that the way of life has changed. My brother can't leave his (little) dog outside on a leash any more. The bears come right up on the deck almost daily. My Mom opened the house door and walked on the deck to find a bear hanging out! She quickly retreated back into the house. Shoot one to save your life and you'll be interrogated endlessly.

For those who say the bears were there first, I say "You don't know what you're talking about". If there can be deer hunts to thin the population, why not bear? Where is the common sense?

You're absolutely right on. People who don't live in the wilder areas of states, should have NOTHING to do with decisions like this. The morons who're bringing wolves back into areas they had been driven from,(by nature) are not doing anything but making themselves "feel good". They couldn't care less about the world's MOST endangered species... humans.

"If there can be deer hunts to thin the population, why not bear? Where is the common sense?"

There is none. These people learn Zoology by watching Walt Disney instead of from reading animal behavior texts.

And if you think you have problems with bears (I thought people in Virginia were smarter than people in New Jersey when it comes to hunting?), WAIT until the Mountain Lions make a comeback.

There have been confirmed sitings in Pennsylvania and rumors in northern New Jersey and New York State - all of which makes sense. There always was a remnant population in eastern Canada and as the deer herds grow, so do the numbers of their predators. And there have been a number of fatal and near fatal attacks by Mountain Lions in Colorado and California. They particularly like to attack children or humans of a small size. Too bad they aren't attracted to attorneys and politicians, then maybe I'd support a ban on hunting them.

Just thank the Native Ameicans for wiping out Mammoths and Saber-Tooth Tigers or the PETA people would be telling us we can't them either and Walt Disney would be doing a movie called "Sally, the Friendly Saber-Tooth".