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All Hunting Articles
A temporary recall of Alberta's Grizzly Bear Recovery Team could be the long-awaited first step on the road to recovery for the province's beleaguered grizzlies, or could alternatively be nothing more than a public relations exercise. The Recovery Team, summarily dismissed in April 2008, has been invited by Alberta Sustainable Resource Development to a meeting on Monday April 26, and grizzly supporters across the province will be paying close attention.
For the second year in a row, the California Department of Fish and Game (DFG) has shelved plans to expand black bear hunting into San Luis Obispo County.
At a scheduled meeting April 21, the DFG Commission voted 5-0 to indefinitely postpone the proposal in the face of widespread opposition.
On April 20, DFG Director John McCamman sent a letter to the Commission requesting the proposal be withdrawn, citing the department’s inability to respond to the “significant number” of public comments, as required by law, before adopting such a proposal.
KALISPELL - British Columbia's grizzly bear hunt is too aggressive, and could hurt efforts to recover the species in Montana unless tighter controls are enacted.
That's the word from a group of senior scientists on both sides of the border, who on Thursday sent a letter of warning to provincial leadership. In the absence of stricter hunting regulations, they wrote, British Columbia's bear population "continues to erode."
As hunters converge on B.C. for the spring trophy bear hunt, a new report shows that grizzly bears are being killed by humans at a rate that far exceeds limits set by the provincial government.
The study by the David Suzuki Foundation and Natural Resources Defense Council used the province's own statistics to examine the number of grizzly bears that were killed by humans between 2004 and 2008. It then compared that data with province's limits for what it determines is the allowable human-caused mortality rate for grizzlies.
DENALI: Proposal bans taking sows, cubs from den in preserve.
Unhappy that the state Board of Game has allowed black bear cubs or sows with cubs to be killed in their dens, the National Park Service is conducting hearings this week.
In late February of 2009, in Anchorage, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Commissioner Denby Lloyd, as promised, explained to me face to face how Palin family friend Corey Rossi came to hold a brand- new leadership position at Fish and Game. Lloyd had told me a month earlier that he couldn't go into an explanation via e-mail.
Gov. Palin, he told me, wanted Rossi -- who at the time was a spokesman and board member of the new Alaska chapter of Sportsmen for Fish and Wildlife, a predator-control advocacy group headed by former state Sens. Ralph Seekins and Scott Ogan -- put in the vacant deputy commissioner slot. But Lloyd strongly refused.
The remains of a black bear were found in Tuscarora State Forest in Jackson Township, Perry County, and reported to the Pennsylvania Game Commission on March 12. Wildlife Conservation Officers said the carcass had been dumped about 15 yards over an embankment along Laurel Run Road.
The Sierra Club filed a letter opposing a California Department of Fish and Game proposal to expand the use of dog packs in bear hunting.
The proposal, outlined in a draft environmental impact report released by the DFG in January, proposed increasing the amount of land on which hunters can use dogs and again allowing the use of GPS collars and “tip switches,” which tell hunters when their dogs are looking up at a treed animal.
EDMONTON — Alberta's Endangered Species Conservation Committee has recommended for the second time in eight years that grizzly bears be listed as a threatened species, but even that designation -- if accepted by the Alberta government -- might not stop them from being hunted, says University of Alberta biologist Mark Boyce.
Boyce, who has studied grizzlies in both the United States and Alberta, says Alberta's Wildlife Act was changed to permit the Sustainable Resource Development minister to authorize a hunt of a threatened species, but he says hunting isn't the biggest threat to grizzlies.
A coalition made up of national and international groups have pooled resources to fight the upcoming Grizzly bear hunt in B.C.'s great bear rainforest.
Vancouver, B.C. - Wild Pacific announced Monday that a series of newspaper ads against British Columbia's Grizzly trophy hunt launched Monday in a campaign to protect the Kermode Spirit Bear. Wild Pacific said
"The ads are endorsed by tourism businesses, local and international conservation groups and coastal First Nations representing 20 million people from over 40 countries."
A giant teddy bear faced the hang-man's noose in a downtown Edmonton park Saturday, surrounded by a frenzied mob yelling for blood.
"Kill the grizzly! Kill the grizzly," chanted the crowd, cheering wildly as the chair was kicked out from under its weight, leaving it to swing slowly from a tree limb.
The San Luis Obispo County Board of Supervisors is opposing the state Department of Fish and Game’s proposal to allow bear hunting for the first time in the county.
With a 4-1 vote Tuesday, the supervisors agreed to send a resolution to the agency expressing the board’s opposition to the planned expansion of black bear hunting.
TRENTON -- New Jersey’s new black bear policy, which reinstates a six-day hunt to deal with the growing bruin population, was approved today by Acting Department of Environmental Protection Commissioner Bob Martin, almost assuring the hunt will go forward in December.
The hunt would be the first in five years.
Coming on the heels of this past week’s vote by the state’s Fish and Game Council in favor of a black bear management policy that includes a hunt, the Bear Education and Resource (BEAR) Group has announced a lawsuit against the Council for "alleged violations of the Open Public Meetings Act Law (OPMA)."
The West Milford-based BEAR Group is opposed to killing bears, and group director Janet Piszar had told Suburban Trends in January that the organization would be "waging a comprehensive campaign to oppose the bear hunt."
Georgia Department of Natural Resources is asking for information regarding the illegal killing of a female black bear in Murray County.
The incident occurred on USFS property in the Peoples Lake area on Buck Creek Road. The bear was killed while hibernating in a den with her new born cubs. It is suspected the cubs could be in the possession of the perpetrator/s.
The incident occurred around the last week of February. At the time of this release the cubs should be approximately three pounds.
A Boulder County convicted felon who walked out on his halfway house sentence and was arrested in October on suspicion of poaching a black bear was sentenced Friday to prison.
Boulder County District Court Judge Gwyneth Whalen sentenced Craig Archer on Friday to six years in prison for walking away from his community corrections sentence and more than $1,000 in fines for poaching a bear and possessing marijuana.
EDMONTON — An organization calling itself No More Grizzlies has launched a campaign calling for the eradication of the grizzly bear, complete with ads that show grizzlies destroying cities.
t proclaims Alberta's Sustainable Resource Development Minister Mel Knight "Alberta's new hero" for contemplating the resumption of the annual spring hunt in Alberta — despite a new report that suggests there are fewer than 700 grizzlies in the province.
Spring is in the air. Flowers are blossoming and the chirping of birds is everywhere.
Now let’s kill some bears.
Well at least that’s what the B.C. Government thinks spring is all about.
The Alberta government's recent decision to suspend the province's grizzly bear hunt for 2010 is good news for the bears. With a current population estimate of 691 bears in Alberta, the species requires legal protection from harm, not deliberate killing, say Alberta's conservation organizations.
"We applaud the Minister for continuing the government's commitment to removing one avoidable cause of grizzly bear deaths," says Nigel Douglas, Alberta Wilderness Association conservation specialist.
The province's recently released grizzly bear numbers don't tell the full story of what's needed to help Alberta's grizzly populations, Alberta conservationists say.
Jim Pissot, the executive director of Wild Canada Conservation Alliance, and Nigel Douglas, Alberta Wilderness Association conservation specialist, both see the report as a call to the government to limit motorized access to grizzly habitat.
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