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Ridgewood NJ, the December black bear hunting season will be extended by four days this week per state regulations to achieve harvest objectives that help protect public safety and maintain a sustainable bear population.
Continue reading Bear Season Reopens Wednesday-Saturday December 14-17
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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection announced on December 6th that the Black Bear Hunt will officially be open and effective immediately following a brief suspension on December 1st. The NJ Appellate Court has found the Emergency Rule valid, with some regulation changes;
Continue reading NJ State Game Code Bear Hunt Public Hearing on January 18th, 2023
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Ridgewood NJ, the Superior Court of New Jersey Appellate Division has lifted the stay on the bear hunt. The bear hunt is now open.
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Ridgewood NJ, The New Jersey Outdoor Alliance on Monday released a statement calling on the Murphy Administration to reverse his policy and reopen state lands to hunters ahead of the approaching December bear hunting season segment.
Continue reading The New Jersey Outdoor Alliance Calls On Governor To Reopen State Lands To Bear Hunters
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Trenton NJ, The New Jersey Outdoor Alliance on Tuesday released a statement condemning comments made by Governor Phil Murphy on News12 New Jersey’s “Ask Governor Murphy” program indicating he is “1,000% committed” to ending the New Jersey black bear hunt, referring to a campaign promise made in his 2017 run for Governor.
“For a sitting Governor to fly directly in the face of scientists and experts that urge the continuation of this conservation management tool to score some points with extremists is absurd.” said NJOA spokesman Cody McLaughlin, “He said he was ‘1,000% committed’ to ending the bear hunt, but what he was really saying was he was 1,000% committed to rejecting the scientific consensus on New Jersey’s bear population.”
Continue reading Sportsmen coalition speaks out against the restriction of sportsmen from the public lands they pay for
Trenton NJ, According to an Associated Press report, a plan by anti-hunting extremist groups to sue to stop the implementation of 2015 rules that added a second annual hunt, increased the number of hunting permits and allowed bow hunting in the state’s controversial annual Black Bear hunt has been rejected by state appeals court.
The ruling rejected claims by the groups that the state inflated the number of complaints about bears and didn’t give enough consideration to non-lethal means of controlling the population such as fertility control and relocation.
Continue reading NJ Outdoor Alliance: Science Prevails In Court Decision Against Anti-Hunting Extremists
Editors Note : Deputy Mayor Sedon could not be reached for comment
By Dave Hutchinson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
on October 17, 2016 at 8:03 PM, updated October 18, 2016 at 8:12 AM
Since he was accused all over social media of being the hunter who shot and killed Pedals the bipedal bear, Thomas McCreary said people have threatened to kill him and his family, rape his wife and sister, burn his home and business, even come to the business to “shoot it out” with him.
The state Department of Environmental Protection’s Bob Considine confirmed Monday that McCreary was not the person who turned a bear in that appears to be Pedals, which became an internet sensation last year through a number of videos on social media.
That bear was brought to Green Pond station in Rockaway on Oct. 10 during last week’s extended bear hunt. Although the DEP said there’s no way to verify if the bear is Pedals, the agency said is appeared to be the same bear.
McCreary said on Monday he did not kill the bear, nor did he take part in this year’s extended hunt. McCreary showed NJ Advance Media his 2016 Zone 4 black bear hunting permit. If he had turned a bear in at a check-in station, the “Black Bear Transportation Tag” would have been removed from the permit, he said.
MAY 7, 2015, 9:45 PM LAST UPDATED: THURSDAY, MAY 7, 2015, 9:51 PM
BY MARINA VILLENEUVE
STAFF WRITER |
THE RECORD
After five years of an annual bear hunt in December, North Jersey still has one of the nation’s densest black bear populations, and state wildlife experts say encounters between man and bear are now occurring more frequently outside of what is commonly bear country.
As a result, the state is considering an expansion of the hunt, in October, starting next year.
The typically solitary, benign creatures are adaptable and can live close to human developments. When bears turn about one year old, they venture out in search of their own territory, said state Department of Environmental Projection spokesperson Larry Hajna.
“What we have in Northwest New Jersey is a situation where we have a very productive bear population, and limited habitat,” he said. Hajna estimated the area has two or three bears per square mile — not much “elbow room for foraging a habitat, finding a mate.”
This time of year, bears emerge from winter dens and seek to mate, sometimes roaming for miles. Police in Allendale, Saddle River and Ramsey say they have received multiple reports of sightings in the past few days.
About 3,500 black bears live in North Jersey, according to the DEP, about the same as when the hunt began in 2010.
Ridgewood councilman calls his bear remark ‘insensitive’
JANUARY 9, 2015 LAST UPDATED: FRIDAY, JANUARY 9, 2015, 1:21 AM
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — Councilman Mike Sedon publicly apologized this week for recent comments he made in an email to an animal-rights activist, admitting Wednesday night that his response was “insensitive.”
Sedon became an online target last week for animal-rights advocates who oppose the state’s annual black bear hunt when his response to an email from Susan Kehoe was shared on social media sites.
Kehoe’s email contained a graphic image of three dead bear cubs with a narrative alleging the picture was taken during the most recent hunt in New Jersey.
Through his council email, Sedon, a hunter, wrote back to Kehoe, a staunch opponent of the bear hunt, that “younger bears taste better than older, larger bears.”
https://www.northjersey.com/news/ridgewood-councilman-calls-his-bear-remark-insensitive-1.1189381
