Where Bears Are In New Jersey, More People Now Want Hunt

The poll says that 70% of people between 18 and 24 feel bears are no threat at all and probably 100% of that group have never been in the woods or have ever looked past the t.v. or cell phone.
The majoirty of the youth today wouldn’t know a bear from a black chow. It’s sad when you think of all that nature has to offer these kids and yet they never take advantage of this great chance to see all it’s wonders.

Jim, you don’t know how really close to the truth you are – in fact it’s worse. Actually, the majority of youth today would not know a black BEAR from a black CROW. My wife and I were taking our parrot for a walk in his travel cage. Two high school students stopped to look at him and ask a few questions. One of the questions was, “are parrots birds?”. My first thought was, “teachers are getting paid way too much these days”. It is becoming more & more apparent that these are the kind of mental midgets we are electing to run the government too. Boy, are we in trouble.

My question is…..What is it with your hatred of bears???/

This state is so misinformed on hunting by these animal conservation groups ( aka ,anti hunters, anti gun groups AND OUR SO CALLED IDIOTS that get elecet into office) they should all do a little reading on black bear or just bear’s in general. First off I grew up around hunting and fishing all my life, we didn’t kill deer, fish or bear’s ect for fun like some of you morons think , we ate what we killed. The number one sin for 99.9% of hunters is not eating what you kill. I do have a mount on my wall but you don’t eat the hide of the animal, so nothing really goes to waste when you do it right, like all good hunters do. I tell you what, have a little one week camping trip for Corzine and his flunkies in the most bear populated part of this state and let them try to live with out there with the bears, I BET THEY WON’T MAKE IT. A black bear will kill you, your children and your pets when they are hungry or you cross there path expectialy Mommy bear with cubs and if they want in your house try and stop them you will be mauled or eaten .You have a better chance of playing dead with a brown or grizzle bears. READ A BOOK ON BEAR’S.
I don’t hate bear’s at all, I love nature and you should conserve it for our children and theirs. But you do have to control there population since there habitat is being taken over by all the people who want there MCMANSION built out there. And you don’t kill cubs and there mothers, you want there number to grow. If you are against hunting that’s fine, just keep your mouth shut because you don’t know what you are talking about or just move out of our state and try to find another state to pollute with your B.S. you woun’t find one, they will through you out asap. I’m tried of my freedoms being taken away by a bunchs of idiots that don’t care about anything except who is linning there pockets with brib money and our tax money. Have a lottery for bow and gun hunters on bears and only give out a certain amount of license’s. I bet anti hunters eat hamburgers, chicken, hot dogs ( and we know what goes in those things lips and Aholes ) ect. That’s ok by those HIPPOCRITS. I think I misspelled that.
But anyway we need the bear hunt and we need to keep our FREEDOMS IN THIS STATE AND COUNTRY and if you don’t like leave and go to France.

Most urban neighborhoods have squirrels, birds, stray cats/dogs. Move a little further out and you might see chipmunks, rabbits, snakes. The person concerned about bear must live in a remote area, or it is newly developed over a remote area. Where’s the bear supposed to go? If the most wildlife you can tolerate is a squirrel, then move back to the city. Problem solved.

Rtuh – It’s not about “toleration” – well, at least for most. It’s about proper wildlife management. If we let bears populate beyond what the habitat will support, this forces bears into people’s back yards.

The choices essentially become, allow this to happen and eventually the bears will starve to death and people’s run the risk of personal injury and/or property damage or we can implement some wildlife management practices that have been in places for over a century and problem solved.

We could parlay this back in your court and tell you to move someplace else if you became overrun with squirrels or some other rodent. Is that the best way to handle the issue?

I do believe bears have been seen in the city. Now where would one go? I never heard of someone being killed by a squirrel or chipmunk.