As we go through the worst year ever of black bear problems in New Jersey with (56) direct house break-ins and over (1372) nuisance complaints, pets and domestic livestock killed we have to have highlighted by a Verona, N.J. resident an accident in the state of Washington wherein a (14) year old bear hunter shot [...]
Archive for September 2008
Black Bears in New Jersey, the Beat Goes On 3 comments
Bear-Proof Garbage, Garbage 4 comments
The Daily Record published a letter from Susan Kehoe promoting the use of bear-proof garbage cans and not feeding pets outside as you can never totally clean up after them. Kehoe a Highlands Lake Resident is actually scheduled to appear in Vernon court next month for guess what? Feeding bears. In her article she states; [...]
New Jersey Black Bear Mania 8 comments
The animal-rights/anti-hunters have tried throughout this year, as in years past, to inundate Governor Corzine and DEP Commissioner Lisa Jackson with e-mails and phone calls to keep this issue a “political-matter” rather than a “wildlife management” issue. Unfortunately, both Governor Corzine and Lisa Jackson have absolutely no experience in this matter and have [...]
New Jersey Black Bears Wanted Leave a comment
Apparently Pennsylvania and New York are prepared to issue arrest warrants for black bears that are crossing over to New Jersey because of “food-attractants”. Problem is they are sneaking back and forth without paying road tolls at Dingmans’ Ferry, Delaware Water Gap and New York Thruway. (A joke of course as is the statement below [...]
Black Bears, No More Pardons 2 comments
Since 2000 the New Jersey Black Bears have made their presence know through disrupting the “safety-zone of balance” required for co-existence with the human population. At the same time animal-rights and anti-hunting groups saw an opportunity to prey on the weak political system in New Jersey through Governor Whitman. These groups created some illusion that [...]
