I am very against the spring…

I am very against the spring bear hunt. How on earth is a hunter in the bush supposed to determine if a bear is a), female, and b), has a cub somewhere safely hidden? It would be ever so easy to shoot a mother bear, without any awareness of if she had a cub or not.
Leaving young, dependent cubs to slowly starve alone is cruelty in the extreme. Please reconsider this method, which may be cheap, but is extremely cruel.