In the proposed new state game code you`ll find this sentence: "There is a closed season for black bear until the commissioner approves a comprehensive policy for the protection and propagation of black bear." The "commissioner" is the person in charge of the state Department of Environmental Protection. That would be Lisa Jackson, who pulled the rug out from under bear hunters last fall in deciding she had the power to tear up the state`s new black bear management policy.
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