Editorial: Are California's bears in peril? Suspend hunting season until we know (via latimesopinion)
of bears killed in the 2020 hunting season, it came up with a dramatically lower population estimate of 15,934. The calculation is imprecise, and the population could be as large as 22,097 or as small as 9,771.
The state arrives at that number of live bears by analyzing dead bears. Hunters are required to buy a tag and turn it in with information on the bear killed, along with the head of the animal, to state wildlife officials, who extract a premolar tooth and use it to determine the age. Between that and the bear’s sex, which hunters must report, along with the number of bears killed, wildlife officials come up with a population count.
Officials cautioned that the number in the 2020 report might be an underestimate. COVID restrictions may have kept some hunters at home, and social distancing measures restricted the in-person collection of bear teeth. The report notes that the department is “continuously working towards improving our methods of estimating bear abundance.”The Humane Society of the U.S. has a smart suggestion for how the process can be improved: a real, empirical count of live bears.
There are plenty of reasons to be concerned enough about the bear population to do a better count. A succession of wildfires has left
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