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This proposal should be in consultation with the First Nations of the areas firstly, and it should consider the impact to the predators below the black bears, since it might create an incorrect assumption, at some point that perhaps wolves would begin to increase in numbers and they prey on the other wildlife, as carnivores rather than omnivores, and it might be worse instead of better to allow hunters to end the lives of more black bears. It seems that it adversely affects the balance of the natural system when larger predators are no longer around to deter other smaller predators from taking advantage of existing prey populations. Do we have to keep looking at this from an economical standpoint? We have already encroached upon the natural environment with what we want, without the knowledge and understanding that is needed to maintain a proper natural balance. Let there be a higher price for taking a life and lets not open a season that becomes more disrespectful of life. Perhaps there are those that have their eyes on the bears territory for other reasons, including development. This is not right. This is not management. They are trying to tell us that we have pushed their boundaries already and have destroyed too much. Let them stay in their natural environments without pretending to make it into another industry.