A brown bear lurks in the wilderness of Katmai National Park in Alaska in this undated file photo.
Hunters in Connecticut killed 10 people and injured 114 in hunting accidents between 1982 and 2016. Compare that to the number of people killed by black bears in the state — zero.
But once again the measly 1 percent of CT residents who hunt are making noise, stoking fear and sounding alarm bells, fueled by the state Department of Energy and Environmental Protection’s report that from Jan. 18 to Dec. 12 of last year, there were 8,922 reported sightings. The report doesn’t acknowledge that every sighting is not a different black bear.
Supposedly 311 sightings occurred in New Milford, the hometown of Rep. Bill Buckbee, who has introduced legislation for a bear hunt in Litchfield County to reduce the population by 5 percent. DEEP, of course, would…
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Exposing the Big Game 
To sad for words!!!!!
I remember reading an article about a town in CT, maybe the same one? There was a special town meeting or something about bears, and people were overwrought – worried about children, even saying they had no other option but to move away.
I don’t know who is worse – hunters, ranchers, or suburbanites!!!!!