I am in complete agreement…

I am in complete agreement with the permanent re-instatement of the spring bear hunt.
The wildlife of Ontario belongs to population and a harvest is appropriate whenever it is found to be humane and sustainable based on science. Hunting is a heritage activity that along with trapping, fishing and timber harvest was the basis for the settlement of this country. Many residents enjoy the activity of pursuing wild game for the table. This is a fundamental human instinct going back to hunter/gatherer days.
Additionally, having spent many years in the outdoors, my personal observation is a hunted population of animals have a natural instinct to avoid contact with people. This was clear to me having spent time in the interior of Algonquin park and also in Temagami Crown lands on numerous canoe trips. This to me implies that hunting may minimize nuisance bear occurrences and the subsequent euthanization of problem bears and the wasting of the carcass.
The proposal for a permanent Spring Bear hunt corrects a mistake that was previously made when the hunt was cancelled for other than scientific reasons.