The state Department of Environmental Protection on Monday rejected a request to stay the bear hunt scheduled for Dec. 6 12 in northwest New Jersey.The request was made in writing last week by the Animal Protection League of New Jersey and the Bear Education and Resource Group. "The facts are clear," DEP Commissioner Bob Martin said in a statement, "we have an overpopulation of black bears in New Jersey, and we must address that issue. A regulated black bear hunt is one important and necessary tool to deal with the growing number of bears..."
Read Original at: The Daily Record (Parsippany, N.J.)