[All] Stop the Spring Bear Hunt

[Louisette Lanteigne]

Ontario is considering allowing spring bear hunts to take place again after a 15 year moratorium. This act leaves young cubs starving to death alone in the forests and it also poses a direct risk to watersheds. The need to cull should not include acts of cruelty. Everything has it's season. 

There is way to help. Right now, you can participate in this quick sign letter with Wildlife Ontario at this link:
http://wildlifeontario.ca/campaigns/springbearhunt/submitpage.php#posted
The EBR is also accepting public comments on their website here:
http://www.ebr.gov.on.ca/ERS-WEB-External/displaynoticecontent.do?noticeId=MTIxNTE3&statusId=MTgxOTg4&language=en
I include my EBR comments below for your reference. Feel free to use it if you like.
I highly recommend that folks view the video referenced to. Ginny Quinn sent that to me earlier today and boy was that timing good. Waterloo Region's wolves were subject to a bounty for scalps which made them locally extinct. If it wasn't for the invasive coyotes that moved it, we would have no more salamanders and frogs due to overpopulation of raccoons, fox and skunks. 
Thanks folks.
Lulu 

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As a Metis women, I find this bear hunt to be highly offensive, immoral and

cruel.  Bears as top predators play a key roll in managing the behaviour of deer and
moose populations by keeping the animals away from sensitive watershed and
recharge areas.  The presence of bears drives deer away from the water's edge where the bears
fish. It  allows the successful regrowth of riparian buffer zones along
tributaries and rivers, preventing erosion issues while keeping effluent of
deer out of waterways. The bears also keep deer out areas where berries grow.
Wild strawberries, cranberries and blue berries and elder berries thrive in
sandy soils which serve as primary recharge for water supplies. To keep
nitrates and phosphate out of these water sources, keep the bears.  The wolves, help to keep deer out of the forests on to the meadows. This allows
forests to regenerate and it maintains temperatures, water recharge,
infiltration through the leaves and roots. It takes both bears and wolves to
fully protect the hydro geological regime.  The deer stay in the meadow where
their waste allows rich grasslands. The soil here is rich and fertile. If you
want to protect Ontario's ability to create farmlands in the future, we must
protect all of these species together. Research from Yellow Stone National Park found a direct co-relation between
wolves, bears and dramatic improvements for watersheds and they have documented
it in a brief on-line film that lasts for approximately 5 minutes.. I provide
you with a link to that film as part of this formal submission. Please review
it here: http://www.youtube.com/embed/ysa5OBhXz-Q I strongly oppose the springtime Ontario Bear Hunt. Leaving orphaned cubs to
starve is no way to protect our biodiversity, our water supply or our
environment. It is a shameful disgrace. It is time we foster rather than
destroy the bountiful balance that the creator designed for us.  It is the kind
of world that is designed to sustain us all for generations to come. Let us not
destroy it.  Thank you kindly for your time.  Louisette Lanteigne
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