Bear numbers might be greater than they were in the ‘70s, when over-hunting, human expansion and a general effort to eradicate carnivores seen as dangerous to humans and livestock saw the species’ population plummet as low as 136 bears in the wild, but that doesn’t mean they are stable enough to allow for sport hunting, said Bonnie Rice, senior representative of the Sierra Club in the Greater Yellowstone and Northern Rockies Region.
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