“Everyone knows that a fed bear is a dead bear. This is why the public is asked to take steps to avoid leaving attractants and food at campsites in grizzly bear country,” Sarah McMillan, WildEarth Guardians’ conservation director, said in a press release. “But in Idaho and Wyoming, individuals seeking to kill black bears can dump hundreds of pounds of donuts and other foods in these same forests to attract and kill bears. It makes no sense.”
The plaintiffs, represented by the Western Environmental Law Center, say there have been eight cases in Wyoming and Idaho where hunters have mistaken a grizzly bear for a black bear — though it was unclear how many of those cases related to baiting.
Wyoming and Idaho are among 12 states in the nation that allow bear baiting and are the only two where both black and grizzly bears reside.
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