California introduces bill to ban Bear Hunting

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Thanks for sounding the alarm here @SouthPaw! We are aware of this and will be getting involved. Additionally, we will be sending out e-blasts with exact steps our members can take to voice their opposition of this bill. We will follow-up here with those steps so Roksliders can get involved. Collectively, we can make a difference!

 

[Smokey12]

Please can I hurry up and retire so I can leave!!

 

[rclouse79]

Few things frustrate me more than ballot box biology. I don't like the fact out of state hunters do not have the opportunity to hunt mt. lion and maybe now bear in California, but there will be plenty of Californians hunting states who still manage their game based on science. If you live in California get out and vote. I don't want this crap spreading to my state.

 

[JFK]

If you live in Ca stop what you are doing and write your local representatives. I just did it and it takes all of 10 minutes. I don’t even hunt bears but this needs to be stopped. They will keep coming after us if they get this crap through.

Surprisingly (or maybe not so surprising) the main author of this bill is from San Francisco. Only bears they have there are.....uh, never mind.

Write your local reps! Put it in terms these dipshits can understand.
-We currently manage bears using hunters with input from state biologists.
-Bear populations are doing very good right now.
-Passing this reduces recreational opportunity.
-Reduces revenue from hunting licenses/tags.
-The state will incur the expense to trap/manage bears.

 

[Mike Islander]

Next it's all hunting, and then all guns. Good luck. Something fundamentally wrong with city legislators driving rural policies. No right. Not right.

 

[hntr]

How is California a thing still?

 

[Azone]

Lions, then bobcats, now possibly bears. I will not be shocked if/when coyotes get protected status in this place. Time to split the damn state up already.

 

[qwerksc]

More funding for Cattle guard training. California politics is Shit!

 

[ChasingSqwach]

Can someone give some instruction on the best way to push back against this? Should we be mailing our senators?

I watched a few years ago when Bobcat hunting was outlawed. Super sad. Ive seen more Bobcats since moving to california than I've seen in my whole life. The population is out of control. Same thing with bears.

 

[Azone]

California politics is Shit!

 

[Cant hit em]

Maybe BHA will step up and help like they did for Colorado and the wolves


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[JohnnyB]

It would be helpful if those outside California would reach out to organizations such as RMEF, BHA, Mule Deer Foundations, Ducks Unlimited, etc and request lobbying attention. Make no mistake about this coming to your state soon enough. Make America California Again- your Vice President says it without irony.

 

[WKR]

If this bill passes it will be the last straw for me. I'll take the major paycut and relocate to a hunter friendly state.

 

[Muley Buck]

If this bill passes it will be the last straw for me. I'll take the major paycut and relocate to a hunter friendly state.

I've got a feeling if it makes it to Newsome's desk it very well may happen.

 

[SouthPaw]

If this bill passes it will be the last straw for me. I'll take the major paycut and relocate to a hunter friendly state.

I'm in the same boat. It wont stop with a bear ban. They will go after everything if the bear ban goes through.

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[willfrye027]

I hate my state. Glad I killed one last year when I had the chance. Don’t worry Idaho, I’m about as conservative as they come and can balance out some of the libtards who are fleeing this communist shit hole along with me.

 

[WKR]

When will we know when this garbage will pass or not?

 

[Rob5589]

If this bill passes it will be the last straw for me. I'll take the major paycut and relocate to a hunter friendly state.

I'd start looking then.

 

[jmez]

When will we know when this garbage will pass or not?

We already know. It's California.

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[Moserkr]

@rclouse79 You actually bring up a very good point. The state not only is prohibiting CA residents to hunt, but also non-residents! Our FEDERAL tax dollars pay for opportunities to enjoy FEDERAL land and whats on it!! Its not their land or right to say what we can and cant do on it. Its our land for our whole nation to enjoy. Maybe that argument could be used to overturn all the illegal hunting bans in CA.

Unfortunately we cant vote on this, or vite to remove the horrible politicians. One, we are way outnumbered. Two, even if we had the numbers, they cheat and steal the elections... the corruption is astounding. Even our fish and “wildlife” is compromised with anti-hunter liberals who have taken money and worked for anti-hunting groups....