https://www.nbcconnecticut.com/investigations/Legislators-Have-Several-Approaches-to-Uptick-in-Connecticut-Bear-Population-505686701.html
By Len Besthoff
Published Feb 11, 2019 at 5:36 PM | Updated at 6:55 PM EST on Feb 11, 2019
A number of legislators have decided to take aim at bills connected to our state’s rising bear population.
NBC Connecticut Investigates explored the idea of bringing back a bear hunt in a piece that aired last November.
Legislators have scheduled a hearing for one of the proposed bills, which calls for a black bear hunt in Litchfield County only, an area with one of the state’s greatest concentrations of bears.
The bill would allow no more than five percent of the black bear population to be taken in a hunt.
Senator Craig Miner, (R –Litchfield), one of the bill’s sponsors said, “No one wants them eliminated. We want them controlled. Right…
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Exposing the Big Game 
“Uptick in bear population” is probably just an excuse to hunt, a rationalization, a snow job on a naive public. “We have to manage wildlife populations” by hunting of course. Whatever did wildlife do before man came along to “manage” them? Shhh.. don’t tell anyone, they managed their own populations. Hunting is a man made up need for man.
“Legislatures have decided to take aim” *eyeroll*
A few months ago I had watched a news report of overwrought CT soccer moms complaining about bears in their neighborhood. I wonder just where people think wildlife is supposed to go, with continued expansion of developments?
Sorry, ‘Legislators’.
“We don’t want them eliminated, we want them controlled.” Tell that to the comorants!
Oh, sure. Let a few more bears show up and it’s time to start the killing.
In the meantime human breeding accounts for approximately 83 million more of us a year. Something is wrong with picture.
Dead wrong.