(So is this article long but give it a look) The long overdue and much needed black bear hunt is just weeks away but it has been a long journey. Starting in 2000 then Governor Christi Whitman yielded to pressure from anti-hunting/animal-right groups, dissed the experts of the NJDF&W and cancelled the planned hunt for [...]
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Black Bear Hunting New Jersey 2010 “The Long Journey” From; Christi to Christie 3 comments
{Black Bears, New Jersey the Overdue Hunt}Protecting the future of the Black Bear and our citizens. 25 comments
The New Jersey bear hunt has been approved. Anti-hunters have protsted and continue to do so. If you are against the bear hunt in New Jersey, there are things you should consider.
Black Bears Take Over Garden State Leave a comment
Black bears are taking over in the Garden State. What is being done to control the over population?
The Need For a Bear Hunt, Now 7 comments
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.
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 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; 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 [...]
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 [...]
