North Carolina’s Wildlife Resources Commission voted tooverturn the state’s bear hunting banthat was first enacted in 1971 when the black bear population was fewer than 1,000.

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Shirin Ali | March 7, 2022

A black bear walking down a gravel road in the Alligator River National Wildlife Refuge near Manteo, North Carolina.Greg Meland/ iStock

https://thehill.com/changing-america/sustainability/environment/597206-north-carolina-set-to-lift-decades-old-black-bear

• The North Carolina Wildlife Resources Commission voted to overturn the state’s bear hunting ban.
• Unless delayed by a legislative review, the ban would be lifted by Aug. 1.
• There were fewer than 1,000 black bears in North Carolina in the 1990s. Now there are close to 15,000.

After a decades-long ban on black bear hunting in North Carolina, residents there will be permitted to hunt in three bear sanctuaries later this year.

North Carolina’s Wildlife Resources Commissionvoted tooverturn the state’s bear hunting banthat was first enacted in 1971 when the black bear…