The Nevada Wildlife Commission voted Saturday to allow hunters to kill 42 bears a year, more than twice the number permitted to be slaughtered in the first decade of the hunt, which began in 2011. The move is the latest in a series of decisions that have prompted criticism of the commission for failing to represent the […]
The killing of two mother bears during Nevada’s 2023 bear hunt is fueling calls from animal advocates for an end to the state’s for-sport hunt, or a decrease in the annual quota that allows 50 bears to be killed each year. They’re also asking the state’s Wildlife Commission, which meets Friday, to prohibit hounding, the […]
Activists ask state to call off ‘for sport’ event Nevada’s black bears, driven by drought, fire, and smoke from their habitats in the high country around Lake Tahoe, are about to face another existential threat — hunters. The state’s season for hunting bears begins Sept. 15, but environmental organizations and animal activists are asking the […]
This opinion column was submitted by RGJ columnist Sheila Leslie, who served in the Nevada Legislature from 1998 to 2012. If ever there were a time to re-evaluate the decision to allow trophy bear hunting in Nevada, it’s this year. Our unprecedented wildfire season has decimated prime bear habitat, leaving dehydrated and thirsty bears homeless, no […]
I’m a mom with two kids and we live in the Tahoe Basin, but don’t ask me where dad is today, maybe over at Taylor Creek checking out the kokanee salmon. We lead a simple life, there being about 450 of us trying to eke out a living here, though it’s getting more and more […]
Letter: Despite widespread public opposition, the state Wildlife Commission has approved a fourth consecutive bear hunt. The bear travesty has been layered on top of multiple killing seasons for big-game and other fur-bearing species. The Commission claims it uses ‘science’ to make its wildlife killing decisions, but not one shred of actual science was presented […]
Nevada’s fourth season for black bear hunting starts today and if controversy over the hunt has died somewhat in intensity, opponents say they remain determined to keep up the fight. Up to 20 bears can be legally killed during a hunt that lasts until Dec. 31, with hunting allowed across much of the east flank […]
We have received the mortality reports on the 5 bears killed thus far in the 2012 bear hunt. Opening day saw the only and first female reported killed to date. She was a 12 year old sow, blonde except for a dark un…derside, with her hair missing on one foot. Perhaps she had survived a […]
