Posted on 11/01/2006 7:49:31 PM PST by neverdem
Associated Press
TRENTON, N.J. -- A group favoring a New Jersey bear hunt as a way to control the bruin population is considering filing a lawsuit against the state because it has not issued hunting permits, a lawyer with the group said Tuesday.
Gov. Jon S. Corzine has not yet decided whether to approve a hunt this year.
Douglas Burdin, a lawyer with Safari Club International, a national hunting and conservation group, said Tuesday that a lawsuit "probably will be filed within days," seeking to make the state issue the permits.
"The bear hunt is currently authorized under New Jersey law, and they should be doing whatever they can to facilitate it," Burdin said by telephone from the organization's Washington, D.C. office.
The governor on Monday threw the hunt into doubt when he ordered state Environmental Protection Commissioner Lisa Jackson to review the effectiveness of the state's bear management plan.
Corzine had until Monday to readopt fish and game regulations that would have authorized a bear hunt from Dec. 4-9, but extended the deadline until Nov. 30 while the review is being performed.
A spokeswoman for the DEP, Elaine Makatura, said the department's lawyers would have to review any lawsuit before commenting on it. She did say that in the past permits for the bear hunt have been issued very late and that permits are also offered online.
Corzine said the state's "Comprehensive Black Bear (Ursus americanus) Management Policy" that was approved last year by then-DEP Commissioner Bradley Campbell and included a bear hunt was not reviewed by his administration and did not reflect his views on the hunt. The governor said he would prefer non-lethal methods of controlling the bear population.
If the hunt goes ahead, it would be the state's third in four years. Last year, hunters killed...
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Somehow I just can't read this without thinking of Tony Soprano next to his pool with an AK waiting for the bear to show up.
" The governor said he would prefer non-lethal methods of controlling the bear population."
Negotiation is the answer.
Perhaps he (Corzine) could talk the boars into a vasectomy?
or
Perhaps the sows should consider abortions?
He could issue an executive order requiring the bears to only engage in gay/lesbian relationships for the rest of his time in office, and simply allow natural attrition to solve the problem.
Violators could be sentenced to 5 years solitary confinement in the zoo.
Death to the bears!
I wish Corislime had a house up here in Sussex and had to deal with these 400 pound raccoons.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDR4MAYbZ98
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