California hunters read this! Take action!

[huntsd]

With the idea of banning bear hunting in California completely alive and still an idea in some politicians minds (this guy proposed banning hunting bears completely https://sd11.senate.ca.gov/). I think it's important to hit them with facts to help keep it alive. There was a great read published by cdfw about our bear conservation plan, specially the hunting portion of it & revenue generated from tags... It takes two seconds to send in an email in. Page 25-26 has some great facts to reference as a reason to keep the season alive. (maybe add a spring season???)

comment here: https://wildlife.ca.gov/Conservation/Mammals/Black-Bear

 

[huntsd]

here is my comment feel free to copy and paste!

Page 26 of the report outlines an important fact about why having established and regulated hunting seasons are important. Over the last 10 years $27.2 million was generated for research and conservation through the sale of bear tags. Per the report, it is estimated that a heathy harvest amount is 15.9% of the population. Currently, less than 7% of the population is harvested annually. Since we do not even reach 1/2 of the substantiable annual hunting mortality rate. A separate spring season and tag should be established to help generate the sale of more bear tags which in return would increase revenue for the research, conservation and overall well-being of California's bear population.

 

[Matthaias]

Thank you, I sent in your comment.

Also added a comment that adding bear tags (and second deer tags for that matter) back into lifetime hunting license big game privileges would boost sales and upfront revenue generation for further research.

 

[rratzlaff1490]

Thanks for doing the homework on this. Copy and pasted your comment. Hopefully good news to come from this!

 

[Warmsy]

@Howl For Wildlife