Kindly do NOT make the…

Kindly do NOT make the spring bear hunt permanent! I live in an area where we have bears, and during the summers after a spring bear hunt, bears are more agitated and more likely to attack during an encounter. Hunters are violent and irresponsible in many cases, they are careless when taking aim, they disrupt our neighbourhoods, when walking in the woods, boating and trying to enjoy the land we own.

Our property has been vandalized by hunters in the spring who are looking for bears to kill. They leave garbage in wild places, and I have seen first hand that many do not obey the laws in place, when they think they will not be caught. There is no reason for this hunt to be made permanent. It is encouraging cruelty, and the ill will of the people who are negatively affected by hunters moving into lands where they are not welcome and where they endanger residents both during the hunts and afterwards by disrupting the wildlife that reside there peacefully.

Kindly do NOT make this hunt permanent. You will draw the ire of a much greater number of people than you will please.