A black bear visits a Wilton, Conn., backyard near Cranbury Park in May 2019.
HARTFORD — Two Republican lawmakers said hunters should be allowed to kill black bears in Connecticut, after a hiker was knocked to the ground by a bear in Southbury over the weekend.
“We hope it doesn’t take a death for Connecticut to wise up and understand that a hunting season is the only way to get this population under control,” state senators Eric Berthel and Craig Miner said in a joint press release Monday afternoon.
Berthel’s 32nd district includes Southbury, where Saturday’s bear incident occurred, and Miner is the ranking Republican senator on the environment committee.
The lawmakers cited the death of a Rutgers University student who was killed by a bear in New Jersey in 2014.
“After that tragic incident…
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