Black Bears

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Today's news paper ( April 14, 2016 ) Northwest Florida Daily News.
Florida FWC sets sights on new bear hunt. Tallahassee.
Armed with updated data showing a "robust" and growing black bear population, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission is working toward holding another bear hunt. 
Commission Chairman Brian Yablonski on Wednesday directed staff and commissioners to prepare to discuss during a June meeting how a hunt could be managed. A commission spokeswoman later said a decision has not been made to hold a hunt.
"There is a process of how the hunt is set up, what the quota objectives are," Yablonski said during a commission meeting in Jupiter. "There is a ton of options out there."  
The Florida Administrative Code already includes an outline for an annual bear hunt to be held in late October; and Yablonski said it's up to the commission to set quota numbers. 
The commission in October 2015 held its first bear hunt in more than two decades as a means to slow the increase of black bears in the state and to reduce dangerous interactions between bears and humans. But the hunt was highly controversial, with opponents protesting in various parts of the state. 
Jacki Lopez, the Center for Biological Diversity's Florida director, said Wednesday opponents have been anticipating the quota being on an upcoming agenda.
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