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...under control, they will begin to endanger the lives of human beings. The sport of bear hunting has not killed off the species. On the contrary, bear-population levels in Michigan are at an all-time high. Bears are extremely clever animals and are not easily hunted, even with bait and dogs, the best feasible method. Licenses to kill these animals are not given freely either; very few hunters actually receive such licenses. The bear population needs to be controlled for the safety of all people. Let's put humans first. MICHAEL YONKMAN Boon, Michigan Via E-mail...
Dole took the bait, using the first question in San Diego, a Can't We All Get Along-type inquiry from a grade school teacher, to bring up the FBI files and Whitewater pardons. This was so promising that an audible sigh of relief went up in the press room. Sadly, however, the panel was made up of those real people we hear so much about, and real people apparently don't take their lead from the media. They were still looking for the beef, and didn't know the new spin was, "Where's the mud?" Like jurors...
...game animals as much as anyone else in his rugged state, where 1 out of 5 residents has a hunting license. But when it comes to bagging a black bear, one of Idaho's choice trophies, he won't have anything to do with two popular hunting methods: using bait to coax it to a killing ground and using dogs to tree it. Says Fritchman: "It's deplorable. Those things take all the sport out of hunting...
Reformers are taking particular aim at baiting--using food to lure game into an ambush. With black bears, the bait station is typically set deep in the woods; fruit, pastry and livestock carcasses are placed in a large barrel or piled on the ground. Defenders of baiting point to the long hours and exhausting effort it takes to stalk and kill a bear. But critics like Colorado bear biologist Tom Beck ask, "How fulfilling is it to shoot a bear with its head in a barrel of jelly-filled doughnuts...
...Bruce Nelson, a Minnesota resident who, while catching frogs for catfish bait, realized that almost all of the frogs he caught were horribly deformed. The deformed frogs, which can have anywhere from zero to six legs, shrunken sex organs and missing eyes, are almost ubiquitous in Minnesota. Scientists are not sure what's causing the deformity...