[HairOfTheDog]

Well, they are right that there is no hunting on National Park land, instead, usually overpopulation problems are either huge projects to move animals to another place with marginal payoff, or quiet slaughters no one hears about.

On this, the conversation can't continue to be run by the "we don't belong in the woods" crowd. I am sure this wacko coalition is right that the hunt is against Federal Law. But there needs to be a workaround for the Park Service to be able to call for hunts of overpopulated species, and a hunt is a darn fine way to do that. The forest is strong, and can 'bear' people on it hunting. Unlike us, animals live with real threats daily, and can keep them in perspective.

Beyond that, I am impressed that there are big tracts of land with bears on it still left in New Jersey. Being from a Western State, the whole state is smaller than one of our parks. That the bears are still there is a good thing. Let the Park Service manage their numbers so they stay there.

No comment on the goofy indian quote at the end of the article.