{"id":435960,"date":"2010-03-16T11:40:14","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:40:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3205"},"modified":"2010-03-16T11:40:14","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T15:40:14","slug":"scientists-say-n-j-black-bear-population-can%e2%80%99t-be-controlled-without-hunt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/435960","title":{"rendered":"Scientists say N.J. black bear population can\u2019t be controlled without hunt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/03\/scientists_say_black_bear_popu.html\" >New Jersey Real Time News:<\/a> New Jersey\u2019s black bear population has soared to nearly 3,500, a  level that can no longer be controlled solely by non-lethal methods, a  wildlife biologist said today as the state Fish and Game Council adopted  a management policy recommending a six-day hunt in December. The biologist, Patrick Carr, said the main reason for the growing  population is the abundance of food state residents willingly and  unwillingly provide. The result, he said, is that the bruins are living  longer and giving birth to more cubs than bears in other parts of the  country.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/03\/scientists_say_black_bear_popu.html\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.nj.com\/ledgerupdates_impact\/photo\/black-bear-population-huntjpg-21c18ed8aad580b0_large.jpg\" width=\"289\" align=\"left\" height=\"193\" \/><\/a>Carr said that in New Jersey, black bears start to breed when they are 2  or 3 years old. In other parts of the country, the age is 4 or 5, he  said. Litters are larger, too, with bears in New Jersey averaging three  cubs per litter compared to two cubs per litter for bears living in  national parks elsewhere.<\/p>\n<p>And bears in New Jersey are living longer; the oldest female tracked  in New Jersey is 26 years old. Because of their favorable living  conditions, adult survival rate is &#8220;extremely high,&#8221; with 86 percent of  adult bears surviving each year and 70 percent of cubs surviving their  first year, Carr said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They\u2019re not food-stressed because we have such a diverse habitat so  the cubs are getting tremendous resources, which is increasing their  survival rate,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Though bears have been sited in all 21 counties in New Jersey, the  highest concentration is in the northwestern corner of the state, north  of Route 80 and west of Route 287, said David Chanda, director of the  state Division of Fish and Wildlife.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nj.com\/news\/index.ssf\/2010\/03\/scientists_say_black_bear_popu.html\" >Read more&gt;&gt; <\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3205&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3205\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Jersey Real Time News: New Jersey\u2019s black bear population has soared to nearly 3,500, a level that can no longer be controlled solely by non-lethal methods, a wildlife biologist said today as the state Fish and Game Council adopted a management policy recommending a six-day hunt in December. The biologist, Patrick Carr, said the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-435960","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435960","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435960"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/435960\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435960"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=435960"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435960"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}