NBC New York: NJDEP accused of cooking numbers for bear hunt

Video credit: NBC New York 

On the eve of New Jersey's first bear hunt in five years, bear advocates are citing new evidence that the hunt is not only unnecessary, but that the NJ DEP 'cooked the numbers' to justify the hunt.

Rutgers Chemistry Professor Ed Tavss, who said he has some experience with statistics, looked at the state's numbers, thought they looked suspicious, and then examined every bear nuisance complaint for 2007, and then 2009. 

"The purpose of the hunt is the belief, the false belief, that the complaints were skyrocketing," Tavss said in an exclusive interview with NBC New York, and then added "They are not skyrocketing at all."
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 10/12/2010 10:30 AM
Categories: Hunting, Bears, Videos
Tags: nj njdep new jersey hunt rutgers bears
 

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  • 10/12/2010 1:55 PM Henry Silva wrote:
    Another idiot, liberal, anti hunter exhausting his last ditch effort to stop the killing of these animals. Lie after lie after lie. There is no evidence, scientific or otherwise, to support the claims of these antis, so they make up deceitful ads and lies. Bears are going to die by the hands of hunters, nothing you can do about it.
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