Please write letters to the editor

stating your support for non-lethal

black bear management.

• The majority of NJ residents oppose black bear hunting

• Hunting does not address nuisance concerns. States with bear hunts experience rising complaints. A report by Dr. Edward Tavss, a Rutgers scientist, proves this. Visit: www.tinyurl.com/bwnat

• Public education, garbage control and aversive conditioning are the best means to address concerns about bears.

• With roughly 2.2 million people living in bear country, a few hundred complaints is very low, especially when they are mostly related to garbage issues. Most people are living among bears in harmony.

• Bear hunts are recreational trophy hunts being sold as public safety. Don't buy it. The top issues affecting New Jersey are wages, property tax, health care, war, education, corruption, homeland security, economy, and the environment.

• The Division of Fish and Wildlife should not be moving bears all over the state, especially in areas where bears do not usually frequent. They do this to induce fear and get support for a bear hunt.
Visit: http://tinyurl.com/bwnat

• Hunters bait bears, bringing them into residential neighborhoods, which raise the complaints. Baiting any animal in bear country is a bad idea.

Contact information for New Jersey newspapers

Please include your name, address and phone number for verification purposes.

Asbury Park Press: yourviews@app.com
Atlantic City Press: letters@pressofac.com
Bergen Record: lettertotheeditor@northjersey.com
Bridgeton News: mgray@sjnewsco.com
Burlington County Times: http://tinyurl.com/bkgph
Courier News: cnmetro@c-n.com
Courier Post: cpedit@courierpostonline.com
Daily Journal: djopinion@thedailyjournal.com
Daily Record: letters@dailyrecord.com
Gloucester County Times: egoldberg@sjnewsco.com
Home News Tribune: letters@thnt.com
Jersey Journal: jjletters@aol.com
New Jersey Herald: newsroom@njherald.com
Ocean County Observer: hfitzsimmons@app.com
Star Ledger: eletters@starledger.com
Today's Sunbeam: tsnews@sjnewsco.com
Trenton Times: letters@njtimes.com
Trentonian: letters@trentonian.com
Express Times: letters@express-times.com
Philadelphia Inquirer: sjvoices@phillynews.com