Nevada bear hunt ends with 14 kills
By AP
Nevada’s third black bear hunting season is in the books.
The Department of Wildlife says 14 bears were killed by hunters, with the last one killed on Nov. 23.
Of those, four were female and 10 were male.
As many as 20 were allowed to be killed in the season that ran from Sept. 15 through Dec. 31.
The agency this year excluded the Lake Tahoe Basin and areas along popular hiking trails on Mount Rose Summit from the hunt area after complaints from residents.
Wildlife commissioners have said they will review the bear hunt after this season.
During the last three years, 135 bear hunting tags were issued and 39 bears were been killed.
STOP THIS BEAR HUNT, NOW AND FOREVER ,SHAME, SHAME SHAME,
SO SAD! I hope the bears rise up and hunt a few humans to even the field.
I assume you are a vegetarian right?
Moral – you miss the point. There is absolutely no “management” accomplished by killing a few bears, it is simply killing for fun (recreation). You may find that ok and you are welcome to that opinion. But choosing to eat meat does not require one to support people who want to kill animals for fun. So eating meat and against killing of large predators for fun are not at all inconsistent.
Rick
I AM a vegetarian, have been most of my adult life. I have no problem with people hunting for food, many of my closest friends hunt and fish and I don’t view them as ‘wrong’ or ‘inferior’. My reasons for choosing to be a vegetarian are personal, based on spiritual, ethical and ecological perspectives, not on knee-jerk reactions. I have heard of bear baiting, hell I’ve even practiced ‘dog baiting’ and ‘idiot baiting'(not always mutually exclusive activities on this website) and I may even be doing it now. It appears that your vegetarian comment is intended to ‘cut somebody out of the discussion’ based on other beliefs that they hold, as though being a vegetarian invalidates their opinion on hunting, or on this particular hunt, or their status as a citizen. I’m curious what your point is, Moral Hazard. Wanna take the bait?
NDOW should do a survey and find out what the hunters did with the bears that were killed.
It is not the hunting of bears I find offensive, it is how the bears are hunted. Run down and treed by a pack of dogs, then the mighty sportsman conveniently shoots them as they cower in fear from the dogs.
hmm, my point was to note the hypocrisy of hoping hunters will get; what mauled, killed – for killing bears. While at the same time non-hunting meat eaters kill just as many animals by participating in industrial meat production and slaughter. And while non-hunting meat eaters display stunningly pure hypocrisy, anti-hunting vegetarians are deeply true to their beliefs. Its all rather interesting because both groups think the same thing
Rick I had about 5000 ducks and geese sleeping in the ponds north and south of my duck blind. Each morning we would walk out to our blind and kick the birds up, and that was it, they never came back until after shoot time. They would go to the refuge closed zone and sit until after shoot time, and then they poured back into our field.
Well there no weather and no ducks in my freezer. So I got out to the field about 2:30Am and literally crawled through 1/2 mile of a ditch and then on my belly across 1/4 mile check. And I did it. I didn’t flush a bird. I had their butts…
until five minutes before shoot time. starting at 15 minutes till shoot time and ending at 5 minutes till shoot time, thousands…many thousands of birds lifted off of my ponds and by shoot time there was not a bird left. just a couple coots.
Point: Humans hunting animals, even without success modifies animal behavior more than factors such as drought and bad forage. It has been that way for millennia.