RENO — With applications for big game tags due in mid-April, Bear advocates are urging people to support saving the bears instead of hunting them. No Bear Hunt Nevada is encouraging people to get a “Sav -Um” license instead of a hunting license. “The Save-Um campaign is a fundraiser with the idea of trying to […]
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On Jan. 17, the RGJ reported the Bear Committee (a subcommittee of the Wildlife Commission) will meet to review the bear hunt. The 2013 Legislature, in SB82, asked the commission to make an “unbiased and informed recommendation concerning the viability of hunting black bears in NV,” “Predicated on sound scientific data.” In that same article, […]
As ordered by the Legislature, Nevada wildlife officials today are poised to review the state’s controversial hunting season for black bears. A committee of the Nevada Wildlife Commission is scheduled to discuss what is described as a “top-to-bottom” review of the bear hunt, which ended its third season Dec. 31. The full commission is scheduled […]
CARSON CITY, Nev. (AP) — Nevada’s third black bear hunting season is in the books. The Department of Wildlife says 14 bears were killed by hunters, with the last one killed on Nov. 23. Of those, four were female and 10 were male. As many as 20 were allowed to be killed in the season […]
ASSOCIATED PRESS RENO — A new effort is building to require bear-proof trash containers at Lake Tahoe and other mountain communities along Nevada’s western mountain ranges. The possibility of adopting tighter trash regulations in Incline Village and other bear-prone areas such as Verdi, Galena and Washoe Valley is scheduled to be discussed by […]
Nevada’s Department of Wildlife and its oversight commission claim “sound” science and management buttress gratuitous, serial killing of wildlife species. The facts speak differently. NDOW’s 15-year bear specialist recently testified about a statistically vague population between 400 and 700. This uncertain range has been used to justify three annual hunts for controlling a fictitious population […]
While reading recent bear events, I found the comment about anthropomorphizing wildlife Mr. Healy made interesting. I’m not sure why some biologists express concern about attributing “human-like” emotions to wildlife. Denying animals, especially ones with high cognitive ability, have emotions is unrealistic. Nevada bear data listed captured bears by name until 2003. Yellowstone wolves are […]
THE END TO BEAR HUNTS in Nevada was the purpose of SB82 at the beginning of the Legislature. Tuesday it passed the Assembly – its second house — as a watered down version. Now it awaits the signature of Gov. Brian Sandoval. Instead of banning Nevada’s bear hunt, which runs Sept. 15 to Dec. 31, […]
A bill that originally banned bear hunting, now calls for a three-year scientific study of bear hunting to be conducted by the Nevada Department of Wildlife . Senate Bill 82, by Sen. Mark Manendo, D-Las Vegas, originally declared black bears a protected animal and prohibited the Wildlife Commission from designating a hunting season for them. […]
