Hunters Given 6 Days to Kill Black Bears
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Hunters take to the woods today for a controversial season aimed at thinning the state’s growing population of black bears, whose foraging has frightened suburban residents.
As many as 5,000 hunters were expected to take advantage of the six-day hunt -- only the second in New Jersey in 35 years -- which begins at sunrise.
Black bears have rebounded from near extinction but the loss of habitat to development is forcing many of the animals to seek food in populated areas.
The hunt has been sharply criticized by animal rights advocates, who call it inhumane and who went to court Friday in an unsuccessful bid to stop it.
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