Mike Raykovicz: Florida bear hunt evidence of how outside advocates still try to influence game departments

We here in New York, as well as many other states, take hunting seasons for granted, in that opening day means we go hunting. But that’s not always the case in other parts of the country. 
The black bear population in most states is on the rise, or is stable, and is not threatened in any way. Yet anti-hunters and animal rights zealots in Florida are torqued about an issue they know nothing about.

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