Connecticut desperately needs a bear season but the tree huggers are formidable.
Bears live to see another day: CT lawmakers to abandon plan for hunting season
HARTFORD — Connecticut’s black bears won a last-minute reprieve this week, as state lawmakers said Thursday they were abandoning their push to establish a limited bear hunting season.
The decision — hailed by wildlife and conservation activists — was the latest blow against a years-long campaign by hunters and farmers to legalize bear hunting, particularly in the Northwest corner of the state where the
majority of sightings are concentrated.
On Friday, lawmakers were scheduled to hold an initial vote on
a proposal that would have permitted the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to set up a lottery system for hunters to kill up to 50 black bears each year in Litchfield County. In addition, the bill included a permitting system to allow farmers to kill nuisance bears, stricter regulations against the feeding of wildlife and other non-lethal means of preventing encounters between humans and the state’s growing population of bears.
https://www.ctinsider.com/politics/article/ct-bear-hunt-bill-lacks-support-17857066.php