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...Wall Street and returned the company to the black. After reporting its first significant profit in three years in 1994, TLC Beatrice continues to improve the bottom line, although earnings are still wobbly. "I have no idea how she did it," says David Wells, an investment analyst at Bear Stearns & Co. "Maybe it was hidden talent, or just plain luck, or even some special gene--some kind of Lewis thing...
Lynn Fritchman, a third-generation Idahoan and retired Army colonel, likes to shoot 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...
Another controversial method is to use hounds, which will run a bear for hours until they corner it in a tree. The canines are sometimes fitted with telemetry gear that can radio their location back to a team of hunters in pickup trucks, who then move in for an easy kill. Too often their shots are not fatal, detractors say. "Anyone who has ever heard the screams of an animal being torn apart by dogs knows why we are fighting for this cause," says Stew Churchwell of Idaho Sportsmen for Fair Hunting...
Still, reformers face formidable opposition from sportsmen's groups and gun clubs. "The issues boil down to whom do we want to manage our wildlife--professionals or people with a hidden agenda?" asserts Don Clower, chairman of Idaho's Sportsmen's Heritage Defense Fund. In Idaho, foes of the bear proposition count the Governor and nearly all state legislators on their side, and initiative backers complain they are being outspent 4 to 1. In Michigan as in Idaho, opponents contend that abolishing spring hunting, baiting and hounding would lead to an onslaught of bear problems and thwart hunters...