The Push for a Hunt
With the failure of the present programs, pressure is growing from a number of sources to re-instate the bear hunt. A contingent of legislators, led by state Sens. Steve Oroho (R-Sussex/Morris/Hunterdon) and Anthony Bucco (R-Morris) and Assembly Members Alison Littell McHose (R-Sussex/Morris/Hunterdon) and Gary Chiusano (R-Sussex/Morris/Hunterdon), are pressuring the governor to reverse the three-year-old policy of attempting to control the bear population with non-lethal means. They cite the high number of bear complaints and the dangers presented when bears become too accustomed to human contact.
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The Need For a Bear Hunt, Now 7 comments
New Jersey Black Bears Do We Hunt or Not 4 comments
Since the last allowed hunt in 2005 and beginning in 2007 through this year 2009, the lack of hunting to reduce and maintain a safe black bear population has led to a “red-alert” level of dangerous black bear activity.
BLACK BEAR PROBLEMS IN NEW JERSEY 2009 24 comments
As New Jersey enters the (4th) year since the last allowed hunt, the black bear problems have drastically increased
Black Bear Attacks Human in New Jersey? 25 comments
Black Bear Attacks A Person In NJ; dangerous bear to human interactions continue to Rise.bear to human interactions continue Also rising are the number of non-hunting citizens, supporting “wildlife population management through hunting” recognizing that hunting is needed to bring the black bear population to a safe co-existing level.
Black Bears and Frogs 7 comments
A warm spring evening in rural New Jersey and night gently pushes out the daylight, chirping birds quite now as they retreat to their hideaways. On cue tree-frogs having rested all day, begin their hunt for food, small insects and bugs. As the night progresses the males will begin to croak and call out for [...]
New Jersey Black Bear Overpopulation Requires Urgent Attention 8 comments
New Jersey is the only state that does not and as a result of cancelled hunts in 2006 and 2007, 2008 saw the largest increase in all categories of black bear complaints
All You Need to Know About New Jersey Black Bears (2009) 4 comments
“THERE ARE MORE BLACK BEARS THAN THE STATE’S HUMAN POPULATION CAN BEAR.”
Black Bears, New Jersey, Governor Corzine, Lisa Jackson, the Dilemma 13 comments
Let’s start off with the word “Dilemma” “any situation in which one must choose between unpleasant alternatives”, any serious problem. A few days ago Governor Corzine visted Sussex at the Grand Cascades Lodge at Crystal Springs. According to Brad Abelow, the Governor’s Chief of Staff, Corzine attended the function, “From the Governor’s perspective, he’s looking [...]
Black Bears; Corzine Considers Them No Problem 15 comments
A release printed in the New Jersey Herald, Newton, N.J., 9/28/08 Quotes Corzine as making the following statement: Calling it a “real and present issue”, Governor Jon Corzine said Friday there probably won’t be a change in the state policy that prohibits a black bear hunt. Corzine said the number of black bears [...]
Black Bears in New Jersey, the Beat Goes On 3 comments
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 [...]
