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 […]
SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) — It’s bear hunting season and that’s always controversial. This year, the debate is especially fierce in Lake Tahoe where animal activists are accusing the state of Nevada of trapping bears for hunting. In the past five years, Nevada wildlife officials have caught and moved more than 20 bears out of the […]
YOSEMITE NATIONAL PARK — It wasn’t that long ago that a trip to see Yosemite’s spectacular granite cliffs and splendid waterfalls was a descent into bear mayhem. In 1997, black bears broke into more than 600 cars in the park, searching for human food as they tore open the doors of Toyotas and Hondas, smashing […]
“We would like to see a change in their trapping policies,” Stark said. “What works in many areas in California and other areas is immediate, on-site aversion … to immediately get that bear for doing something wrong. That’s what’s going to work, not by killing them. INCLINE VILLAGE, Nev. — Wildlife officials on Wednesday, Sept. […]
The RGJ reports that 17 bears — 11 male and 6 female — have been killed thus far in the 2014 Nevada bear hunt. Since the Nevada Department of Wildlife reports Nevada’s bear population is 2:1 male/female ratio, hunters have half the chance of encountering a female. It appears then that Nevada bear hunters demonstrate […]
Sixteen black bears have been killed by Nevada hunters thus far this season for the highest total since the hunt started four years ago. Two male bears were killed Saturday in the Pine Nut Mountains, surpassing the previous season highs for the number of bears killed of 14 last year and in 2011, the first […]
A NV bear hunter killed W-92, pictured here with his sister. Please stop this senseless killing by emailing sscourby@ndow.org. Ask her to “forward your email to the Wildlife Commissioners and Bear Committee members and enter it into the record.” The Commissioners are voting May 10 to approve killing more bears in the 2014 hunt. Tell […]
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 […]
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 […]
