Bear Hunt Matters in New Jersey
Sign In SHOPPING CART:0 ITEMSTOTAL: $0.00View Cart

Helping You Get the Most From Your Hunting Dogs


Bear Hunt Matters in New Jersey





New Jersey Gov. Jon Corzine's decision not to authorize a bear hunt originally scheduled for Dec. 4-9 but instead to employ non-lethal means of controlling the population is proving disastrous. First, the Gannett News Bureau reported that professionals commissioned by the State concluded that contraception would be costly, difficult and almost certainly fail -- a study posted on the state's Department of Environmental Protection Web site a week before the governor's rejection of the hunt. Another form of non-lethal management was to be the use of bear-proof garbage cans, its effectiveness to be demonstrated by a $200,000 pilot program in West Milford, N.J. "More than a year later, the money is sitting in the bank and the cans have yet to be purchased," writes the New Jersey Herald. Fed up with the politicizing of a hunt recommended by the state's wildlife management experts, the U.S. Sportsmen's Alliance, Safari Club International and the New Jersey State Federation of Sportsmen's Clubs have filed a collaborative lawsuit.
NSSF Bullet Points

We want your input:
Logo
Copyright ©2024   - All Rights Reserved