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Public commenters urge reinstatement of spring bear hunt and criticize commissioners’ conduct
Summary
At April 18 testimony to the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission, dozens of public commenters criticized commissioners under investigation, urged science-based wildlife decisions and asked the agency to restore a regulated spring bear hunt that staff had deemed sustainable.
Dozens of public commenters on April 18 pressed the Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission to keep decisions grounded in science and to address alleged ethical and procedural failures by some commissioners.
Daniel Fisk Bennett, a Washington resident and social-media personality, told the commission he supported “reinstating a carefully regulated spring bear hunt,” saying “WDFW’s own professional staff concluded that a limited spring hunt was biologically sustainable.” Bennett argued the hunt’s cancellation was driven by emotional campaigning rather than population-level science and called for transparent, science-led decisionmaking.
Several other commenters framed the meeting in stark terms. Douglas Bose, acting…
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