In an era when all wild…

In an era when all wild animals are in precipitous decline, and useable habitat for wildlife is rapidly being degraded by de-forestation and other industrial exploitation; any claim of a Bear overpopulation is clearly the result of human over population and land exploitation.

A Spring Bear Hunt is a silly, unscientific knee jerk reaction to the hunter/outfitter call for more "economic" opportunity for killing wild life.

Nuisance bears arise through loss of habitat, and are attracted because of human carelessness in waste disposal or failure to secure alternate food sources.

The Spring Bear Hunt is a cynical political ploy to pander to that part of the PC "base" that believes in its entitlement to kill. Hunting bears is not hunting for sustanence. If there is any economic purpose, it is to sell Bear parts/skins to a largely illegal black market for spurious medicinal/vanity use. A spring hunt will only legitimise this despicable enterprise, which is already perpetrated by illegal poaching.