In your article, “This part of New York killed a record number of bears last year.” (February 13, 2020, by Joseph Spector) we learn that hunters killed (ie., murdered, destroyed, assassinated, ended the lives of, snuffed-out, eliminated, or, in typically disengaged game manager-jargon, “harvested”) 1,505 N.Y. black bears this past fall.

Bears are intelligent, highly evolved mammals—much like dogs. Making sport of shooting and killing them (and bragging about it afterwards) is the sort of thing that New York’s infamous “Son of Sam” would have done. Speaking of serial killers, that’s one class of people who like to make trophies of their kills. Sport hunters are another.

Do we really want to encourage that kind of behavior in this day and age. Haven’t we, as a species, evolved a little beyond that by now?

When will the expanding human population quit blaming the wildlife for their problems?

Jim…