Word: fritchman
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Like a growing number of hunters, Fritchman has joined cause with animal-rights activists like the Humane Society to reform hunting practices. He heads the Idaho Coalition United for Bears (I-CUB), which is pushing a November ballot initiative to outlaw baiting and hounding bears as well as stalking them in the spring, when sows emerge from their dens with newborn cubs. This fall, hunting- and wildlife-related measures are on the ballot in several states (see chart). Those determined to reform hunting practices have resorted to popular referendums because the legislative committees and regulatory commissions that oversee hunting...
...that is blamed largely on the growth of the human population and weather conditions, especially drought. Last year was Colorado's best bear-killing season since 1989. All the more reason, say advocates, to push for reforms. "If we all want to be hunting in 40 years," warns Fritchman, "we'd better do away with practices that are now viewed as repugnant...