Petition updatePlease Stop Selling Trophy-Hunting Trips on eBayPlease tell Washington State to Ban a Spring Bear Hunt!
Salty DogOR, United States
Mar 10, 2022

Please leave as many comments on the public input website as possible, as trophy hunters are trying to hog the site. Please be professional.
'I oppose the spring bear hunt' is sufficient.
https://publicinput.com/SpringBearPetition102

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

Reason:
We oppose WDFW's proposed amendments to WAC 220-415-080.

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 offspring 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.
Petition:
https://www.change.org/p/urgent-help-permanently-ban-spring-bear-hunting-in-washington

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