Please leave as many comments on the public input website as possible, as trophy hunters are trying to hog the site. Please be professional. And please put it on the public input site, not only here.
https://publicinput.com/SpringBearPetition102

'I oppose the spring bear hunt' is sufficient.

Thank you all for your help, you are saving 664 bears if we succeed!

This is from a Washington resident:
"Spring bear hunts are immoral and anachronistic. They were originally organized at the behest of the timber industry to stop hungry bears from stripping bark from trees to reach the sweet sap underneath. But the efficacy of this approach has never even been documented! So the WDFW is now expected to permanently approve a spring bear hunt simply to "preserve a hunting tradition," if we are to believe hunting advocacy groups. This is circular reasoning at its worst.

Regulating that mother bears and offspring are not to be "taken," does little to mitigate the cruelty of this hunt. Bears that are starved from hibernation emerge to a world that is just starting to provide the year's food. Hunting bears at this time just increases the stress these animals are under and makes it more difficult for mother bears to raise their ofspring and for their offspring to thrive.

And mother bears are killed very year 'by accident' regardless!

If you want to make the spring bear hunt permanent, show us how much money we are saving the timber companies. Then we can decide if we want to sell our souls for that amount.

We are better than this, Washington."