Please submit your public comments on Idaho through this form. Comments must be in by the close of business on May 3, 2018.
What to say:
- Although Idaho was allocated less than one male bear, it has no safeguards in effect to ensure that a male bear is targeted - versus a female bear. Rather, there is 50/50 likelihood that a female bear will be killed. If this happens, Idaho will violate mortality limits in the hunting agreement between the three states in the region.
- Idaho grizzly bears are especially important in establishing connections between the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem population and the bears of northern Montana and Idaho. Killing these bears in a trophy hunt would lead to further isolation and flat population growth of the Yellowstone population.
- Idaho should follow Montana's example and not trophy hunt its grizzly bears. Rather, Idaho should wait to gain the trust of the public and prove that it can manage its bears so soon after they have been removed from the federal Endangered Species list.
- Mortality due to human causes has been at an all time high and, as a result, the Yellowstone ecosystem population has not grown since the early 2000s. This, combined with the fact that grizzlies have a very slow reproductive rate means that killing bears, particularly females, can have a rapid, detrimental impact on the overall population. A trophy hunt this soon after removing the bears from the Endangered Species list would be reckless and threaten years of slow recovery.
HOW TO ANSWER THE QUESTIONS IN THE FORM:
The proposal is clear and understandable: select neutral or disagree
The proposal does not conflict with other hunting, fishing or trapping opportunities: select neutral or disagree
I support the proposal: select disagree
I would support the proposal if it met my concerns: select disagree
* There are a series of other questions at the very bottom of the form. Select neutral for all of those.
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