Manage bears humanely

To the editor:

I am a volunteer in the Valley who is against the baiting and snaring of bears, Fish and Game Proposition 77-B, because I believe it is cruel and inhumane.

I am not against hunting — my dad used to hunt, my friends hunt and I like meat. I am not against the baiting and snaring of small animals, they are varmints and I have friends who run traplines.

Small animals = small traps. Big animals + big traps = big collateral damage.

Bears need to be managed, as they are pests. I say, track them down and shoot them. It’s called “hunting.”

During Corey Rossi’s presentation promoting Proposition 77-B, one default option noted for the dead bears is no salvage at all. What is Rossi trying to do, supersede Mother Nature’s law of survival of the fittest? Won’t serving the wild animals “carcass a la carte” habituate them and make them easier to hunt?

Oh, well. It still won’t be as easy as mowing them down from helicopters and planes. Look it up on the Internet — it’s brutal. You better have a strong stomach.

As a free-range volunteer, I will aid anyone who is against barbaric practices such as these. I know I am new on the scene, but I have heard good things about the advisory committees and wonder why they can’t manage their own units — backed by science, of course.

Della Dempsey

Wasilla