Get me the BCLU, Pronto!
Bears running amok in Jersey...
Clearly Bush's fault (that naughty little monkey!)
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Get me the BCLU, Pronto!
THIS IS BLATANT SPECIES-ISM! CALL THE A.C.L.U. IMMEDIATELY!
This totally sounds like scrappleface.com. Who is going to inform the bears?
NY wildlife chief urges Garden State to hold bear hunt
TRENTON, N.J. - New Jersey' neighbor to the north is urging it to hold a bear hunt this winter to help control the growing number of black bears that range between the Empire and Garden states.
Denise Sheehan, New York's environmental conservation commissioner, called for a hunt in a letter to New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Bradley Campbell.
"Managed, successful hunting seasons in both New York and New Jersey, coupled with educational programs and nuisance abatement protocols, are the keys to the sound management of this magnificent resource," Sheehan wrote in the July 14 letter.
The letter comes a month after Campbell said he would consider a hunt for this December and perhaps annually.
"Wildlife management is a community effort that crosses state lines," Campbell's spokeswoman, Elaine Makatura, said Wednesday.
Last year, Campbell blocked a hunt, resulting in a court clash with the independent state panel that sets the state's hunting seasons.
Under a subsequent state Supreme Court decision, Campbell and the game panel were told to develop a management plan that outlined an acceptable size for the bear population and the methods to control it.
Campbell is now reviewing a draft policy that proposes a hunt this year. If he approves it, the game panel will be relatively free to set annual bear hunts.
New York and Pennsylvania have held regulated, annual bear hunts for some time. New Jersey's last hunt was in December 2003, the first since 1970, when annual bear seasons were stopped because the animals had become scarce.
Hunters in New Jersey killed 328 bears in 2003.
Trouble bruin in Joisey . . I know: bear porta-potties, sani-johns! Unemployed Dims need work, so training our ursine friends, why--could be grisly but also a win-win solution!
(pulling for bears)
I would think they would just ban the smoking bears or those that drive SUV's...or smoking bears that drive SUV's.
I can hear PETA screaming now.......
BTTT
Trouble is the bears are going to go where the grub is.
FAR better to let the bears do whatever they want and declare NJ a Democrat free zone.
Soon, common sense and the coincidental lack of democrat critters running amok will will result in a Republican state, free of bears.
Think that is sarcasm?
The tough thing is that the Jersey Black Bears are blending in to their habitat, making them difficult to spot and catch.Jesus H, they want to establish large bear populations in the South Jersey pinelands, where there aren't any bears now! This is because North Jersey is neglectfully unaware of South Jersey. The New York dominated North and Philadelphia dominated South are about 75 miles apart and might as well be on different planets. South Jersey is not a barren wasteland, it is loaded with suburbs and office parks, and not a Deanali into which they can dump a large bear population. Oy.
The only good bear, is a dead bear.
Sounds fine, but bears are notorious for disobeying the law. I doubt if they'll comply.
Maybe we can do the same for great whites.
HOw about throwing in some RAT-free Zones too?