“Bears are made of the same dust as we, and breathe the same winds and drink of the same waters. A bear’s days are warmed by the same sun, his dwellings are overdomed by the same blue sky, and his life turns and ebbs with heart-pulsings like ours.” — John Muir
During five weeks from Sept. 6 through Oct. 11, 5,000 black bears will be killed with packs of dogs run on them since July 1, and bait set all summer. Most will die before they are 2 years old.
For $4.50 each, 112,985 wannabe bear hunters (over $508,400 collected) were entered in the bear kill lottery. The most licenses ever issued have been sold for the 2017 kill — 12,850 licenses at $49 each (another $629,650) — or $7 to lure a child 10 to 11 years old to kill a bear cub.
The Department of Natural Resources is…
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Exposing the Big Game 
“John Muir had it right. When it came to a war between beings, he was on the side of the bears.” Dave Foreman, “Take Back Conservation”
So the nimrods will be taking to the woods looking for innocent and unsuspecting bears to chase down with hounds and fill with bullets and arrows.
We’re morally schizophrenic. For us, the only diffetence between sadism and sport is the species of the victim.
For those of us living and witnessing the dark day, the massacre of animals and rampage of subspecies of human, we can watch and despair. I often think the day that I will be a good day.
What’s sad is the worse the results of our ‘activities’ get, the tighter we hang on to and insist upon our destructive ways. Like you, I have witnessed in my lifetime a downward spiral. The creation of all of the wonderful protections we used to know, and now the greed and selfishness and a virulent resurgence of anthropocentrism that is disabling those protections.
She nailed it, as usual. Human supremacy, and every other supremacy perpetrated on the world by us.