We can all agree that Governor Chris Christie would be no friend of biodiversity if he was to be elected President in 2016.............Black Bears have been hunted with intense pressure in the Garden State since 2010 causing Bears in the northwestern portion of the state to tumble from 3000 to 2200 .............Yet Gov. Christie's Environmental Protection Unit has the gall to say that there are still 3500 Bears in this region, an overstatement of the poplation even prior to killing off 1600 of the bruins since 2010..............Female Bears reproduce slowly and not every year----Couple this with the diminishing kill levels(from 500+ to 200+ over the past 4 years and in my mind you have a declining not a growing population.................Have we heard Christie dictate that all northwestern Jersey communities should initiate bear proof garbage cans and and not to put out your trash till the morning of pick up?..............NO,,,,,,,,,,just "kill baby kill" rhetoric seeped in B.S.regarding resident safety,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Thus NJ now has an expanded hunting season initiating in October 2016 and an additional 4 days tacked onto next weeks hunt should "weather keep hunters from coming out..........Wow, that is just great wildlife science at play wouldn't you say??????.............Let us hope that Christie gets no traction in the New Hampshire primaries even with the big newspaper up there endorsing him for President

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BLACK BEAR HUNT IN NEW  JERSEY TO START MONDAY  12/7/15 WITH  A NEW 6 DAY OCTOBER 2016  TACKED ON...............pLUS  4 ADDITIONAL  DAYS IN DECEMBER IF "BAD  WEATHER" HURTS HUNTER  TURNOUT https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=0ahUKEwj6_OO21LnJAhXIGh4KHeBXBukQFggcMAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.nj.com%2Fsussex-county%2Findex.ssf%2F2014%2F12%2Fhunters_set_to_add_to_1600_bears_killed_over_past_4_years_as_hunt_begins_monday.html&usg=AFQjCNHrUiBA7iTWYl3eFtaEaWzgjIvr1w&sig2=55yq9r_o-5E8WbIuP-1tbQ t .