Sen. Robert Littell Thinks Jackson’s Bear Proof Garbage Cans Idea “Unconscionable”
December 8, 2006
Only a few hours after completing my story to you about the ineptitude of the New Jersey DEP and the town of West Milford in trying to get bear-proof garbage cans made, Senator Robert Littell has a few choice words to say about Jackson’s multi-million dollar anti-hunting campaign.
To the Editor:
It is unconscionable that Commissioner Jackson would propose requiring the citizens who live in ‘bear country to use bear-proof containers.’ This unwarranted mandate from the Trenton bureaucrats would cost millions of dollars to further an extremist anti-hunting agenda..
In fact, DEP’s own information sheet on the web lists prices for commercial bear-proof garbage containers that range from $348 to more than $800. The prices for commercial bear-proof dumpsters range in the thousands of dollars. And bear-proof containers have not proven to be one hundred percent effective.
Sussex, Morris, Hunterdon and Warren counties had a combined total of 302,000 households in the 2000 census. Multiplying the number of households by just $400 would drive the price of a bear-proof garbage container to more than $121 million for the four counties. A price that would certainly be borne by the taxpayers.
It is wrong to propose an expensive proposal like this when a scientifically valid, time-tested alternative exists – a controlled hunt. The taxpayers of this state should not be forced to fund a politically-motivated wildlife management experiment.
Sen. Robert Littell
Enough said, I guess!
Tom Remington
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WOW! I wish our politicians said stuff like this when our spring hunt got canned! Great Story!
It is certainly refreshing to see a politician speaking directly and candidly at a subject.
You don’t have to be a bear hunter either to understand common sense and practicality either.
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Sen. Robert Littell,
Have you ever been charged by a male bear? Have you ever had a mamma bear and her two cubs on your porch or the mamma bear try to break into your kitchen window when you were home? Well I have. And my campers are endangered.
So are you going to bring your guns to my house and shoot the bears? Well more bears will come next week. Until the trash stops being the lure, we who live in bear country will continue to have bear encounters from bears who have learned to depend on human trash “handouts”. These bears can no longer hunt for their own food because they now expect these handouts to continue. These bears train their cubs where to get food; they are trained to go to the homes of humans (who by the way, could possible more cognizant of what they do with their trash)! You might as well throw your trash onto the street; why make it harder for the bears to find their sustenance and easier for hunters to kill; you call that fair game?
I am not against hunting but I would expect humans to follow the laws of nature and not just their own laws that serve only the human race.
Lamenting the days when sporting and fair fight was the Modus Operandi,
Ranger Anne