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I keep reading these stories and I have to question which is the greater idiot. The woman who feeds the bears or the idiot writing the stories. I live in NW Jersey. I see bears ALL the time. The come on to my deck, they roam the yard etc.

I put my trash out right before they come to collect it, otherwise it gets strewn all over.

If the bear was attacking my dog, I'd shoot it with my shotgun. Damn the gun banning lefties.

Furthermore, we are not encroaching on the bears. I've lived up here for years. The bears have been much much worse in the past couple years than at any other time. All the land within about 20 miles from me is either watershed or protected or unbuildable. There are no "new" homes going up in the Vernon area. The one development that was going to go up was kiboshed. There is little to no development in this area. There are simply MORE bears. Some of the other solutions include NOT shipping them up to this area from Philidelphia or New York, which has and continues to occur. -Mal

You are totally correct.

There was a bear hunting season in Jersey until sometime in the 1960's-1970. During that time, black bears were confined to a limited area in the extreme northwest, near the Delaware Water Gap. When the bear hunt was stopped, their numbers gradually increased. The Jersey Dept. of Fish and Game encouraged this, as they anticipated a newer and better bear season. What they overlooked was the rising number of Bambidiots, mainly people moving out from the urbanized eastern part of Jersey and the New York Metropolitan area who think meat is grown in a supermarket and hamburger is made from a machine. Thanks to these morons, and those who pander to them, like former Governor Chrissie Whitman, the bear hunt never happened. Those who know bears and know what they can do warned the state, but the state chose to listen to people who learn zoology from Walt Disney flicks. Now its time to pay the piper and the hunt will be re-instated. Unfortunately, the cat is out of the bag, ot the bear is out of the woods, and there are now bears located throughout northern Jersey in the parks and woodlots where hunting them would be dangerous. Wait until they get into the Pine Barrens!!

What most of these city fools don't know is that after the Revolution, most of Jersey's forests, except for the Pine Barrens were all cleared out and the state was covered with thriving farms which fed their urban ancestors. Deer, bear, and most or all other wild game had been hunted out of existence.

With the rise in taxes and the problems involved in farming recently, most farmers sold out or moved out, and the cleared out farms and pasteur lands reverted to second growth or third growth forests, an ideal habitat for game animals, as the Native Americans knew and used to their advantage centuries ago by burning out forest lands. The deer came back and were hunted. Eventually, the bears came back, but, thanks to those city nuts, they weren't allowed to be hunted.

An animals that can climb a tree as fast as a squirrel, can out run a man, can grow to 600 lbs or more, eats anything it can catch, dig out, or find, and has the strength to go through a house door, rip open a car truck, or toss a German shepherd across a yard, simply does not belong in so densely populated and squalid a state as Jersey, unless its numbers are keep VERY low by intensive hunting.

I can't wait until a hungry bear chases a fawn into a school yard and rips it apart in front of a class load of bambiite kids!! They will get an education Disney cartoons will never provide!!