As a Maine senior, I strongly support our outdoor traditions. Maine has enough beautiful and abundant woods and waterways to keep hunters, fishermen and hikers happy for generations.
What I can’t support is baiting our black bears. Training a bear to come to a spot in the woods to feast on stale doughnuts and other junk food until the day he is shot in cold blood ain’t hunting! It’s a threat to public safety.
These animals are naturally shy, normally going out of their way to avoid humans. Teaching bears to eat our garbage brings them to where we live rather than where wild food is plentiful enough to keep the population healthy and at sustainable numbers.
It’s highly unlikely that Maine’s bear population would ever exceed the carrying capacity of their natural habitat without our interference.
Keep the bears in the woods where they belong. Vote “yes” on 1.
Arlene Goldstein
Sangerville
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