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California bear hunt proposal withdrawn

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Enough Californians found it unbearable that the Department of Fish and Game wanted to expand bear hunting in Lassen and Modoc Counties, and open the season for the first time in San Luis Obispo County, that the agency made an ursa major reversal Tuesday.

Fish and Game said it was deluged with criticism. They backtracked on the day the Los Angeles Times published a front-page story on the bear-hunting proposal, which had drawn opposition from community, environmental and animal-welfare groups.

The new regulations also would have allowed hunters to put GPS tracking devices on their hounds and would have raised the season limit above the current 1,700 bears.

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The department said the statewide bear population has quadrupled since the early 1980s.

-- Geoff Mohan

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