New Jersey Environmental Commissioner Lisa P. Jackson issued draft recommendations for a new black bear management policy on July 26, emphasizing non-lethal measures to control New Jersey`s growing bear population. But her recommendations were not supported by the state Fish and Game Council, which is supposed to work with her in setting wildlife management policy. The council favors hunting as a way to reduce the bear population, now estimated at 3,000 statewide.
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