Bears Are Not Terrorists

Check out the caption under this Star ledger photo today above a story on an upcoming bear hunt:

The New Jersey Game and Fish (sic) Bear Response unit tranquilized a black bear in Wayne that was terrorizing the neighborhood. Wayne authorities tracked the bear to the back porch of a home on Fox Hill last week. New Jersey is expected to announce a bear-management plan.

Terrorizing the neighborhood?

The fears and smears of the terrorism label have gone too far (see NY Times editorial: “Are you or have you ever been a lawyer“).

The T word has now crept into our wildlife management thinking.

Of course, demonizing bears as “terrorists” makes it much easier to put in place a policy that allows hunters to kill them.

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