Vermont Bear

By extending existing premium assessment measures to all private insurance companies in Vermont, the state will partner with insurers to share risk across the board and stabilize the marketplace. This program is both efficient and fair; no single group or insurer will bear the extraordinary burden for high cost care. ... [Read More]

MassWildlife Black Bear Biology FAQs
While insects comprise an important part of a black bear’s diet, particularly in summer, vertebrate prey is less commonly taken. Black bears will scavenge carcasses of winter-killed deer or other hoofed animals in spring after den emergence. However, most living prey animals are too swift or elusive to be caught by black bears on a regular basis. An exception occurs during a brief period in spring when newborn moose, deer, or caribou young are vulnerable. Black bears were presumed to be the largest source of moose calf mortality when black bear numbers were 10 times greater than brown bears and when black bear densities were greater than 520 per 1000 mi². Predation nearly ceased by the time the calves are 2 months old. However, cow moose will aggressively defend their young against bear attack, and bears may be injured or killed when attempting to prey on moose calves. In Newfoundland, black bears accounted for 35% of caribou calf mortalities, 62% of which occurred within 4 ... [Read More]

Black Bears in North America
Two of 16 recognized subspecies of black bears (Hall 1981) require special mention: the Louisiana bear ( U.a. luteolus ), with a range of east Texas, all of Louisiana, and southern Mississippi; and the Florida bear ( U.a. floridanus ), with a range of Florida and southern Alabama. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service was petitioned in 1987 and 1990 to list the Louisiana bear and the Florida bear, respectively, as endangered species under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. In 1992 the Louisiana bear was officially placed on the federal endangered species list as a threatened species, and the Florida bear was placed in a "warranted but precluded" category. This latter category indicates that although biological evidence supports listing, several other species of higher priority are awaiting listing and will be listed before the Florida bear. At present, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering listing bears in southern but not northern Florida. ... [Read More]

bernie :: article :: Douglas 'very concerned' by Bush budget proposal
Douglas declined to say whether he agreed or disagreed with the decision by Vermont Teddy Bear Co. CEO Elisabeth Robert to resign from the board of Vermont's largest hospital, Burlington-based Fletcher Allen Health Care. ...

Douglas has been critical of Robert's company for marketing a straitjacketed "Crazy For You" Valentine's bear that has been widely criticized as insensitive toward people with mental illness. ... [Read More]

Visiting the U.S. Senate
Space Bear's trip to the Senate started off with a little excitement. TheSenate has a fancy new subway system which shuttles Senators and other peoplebetween the U.S. Capitol Building and the Senate office buildings. Dependingon who you ask, the new subway cost between $12 million and $18 million. When Space Bear got to the Senate Subway, he found that the subwayhad broken down and trapped two Senators inside. One of the Senators washappy to talk with Space Bear and Rep. Petri through the glass door until sherealized Space Bear had brought a camera. That caused the Senator to hidefrom the photographer. "I wonder why?" said Space Bear. "Nobody is goingto claim that she caused the subway to break down!" ... [Read More]

Finding the Federal Circuit
Take Metro's Blue or Orange Line to the McPherson Square Station. Exit following signs toward the White House. At street level take Vermont Avenue (bear left at the top of the escalator) in the direction of H Street. Crossing H Street, Vermont Avenue becomes Madison Place. The National Courts Building's main entrance is midblock on the east side of the street. ... [Read More]

VDGIF > Hunting > Bear Management Plan > Supply & Demand
Bear hunting issues are as contentious among bear hunters and other hunters as they are with the general public. In Idaho, only 28% of other hunters favored bear hunting with dogs. During the mid-1970s in Virginia, 74% of the opportunistic bear hunters (i.e., those hunters who were primarily hunting deer, but would harvest a bear if they had the opportunity) were opposed to hunting bears with dogs. Similarly in 1993, 54% of the non-dog bear hunters did not favor the bear-dog training season in Virginia. On the other hand, 82% of dog bear hunters favored the bear-dog training season; only 14% of the dog bear hunters opposed the training season with 5% remaining neutral. Of the other hunters who did not hunt bears, most were neutral (49%); another 32% opposed the bear-dog training season with 19% favoring it. ... [Read More]

United States House of Representatives - Amendments to the Constitution
Section 2. Representatives shall be apportioned among the severalStates according to their respective numbers, counting the wholenumber of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. Butwhen the right to vote at any election for the choice of electorsfor President and Vice President of the United States,Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officersof a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is deniedto any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-oneyears of age, (See Note 15) and citizens of the United States, orin any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or othercrime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced inthe proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bearto the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age insuch State. ... [Read More]

MassWildlife - Black Bears
Despite popular belief, black bears are not fierce. Their first response is usually to flee and in woodland areas the bears may disappear long before they are seen. Black bears sometimes can become habituated to human presence and conditioned to human food sources. These circumstances may then lead to damage or depredations which have unfortunate consequences if people then destroy the bear out of fear or to alleviate the damage. Black bears rarely harm people, although minor defensive attacks can occur when people tease or closely approach bears in parks or campgrounds. Female black bears defend their cubs by putting them up a tree. The sows may huff and blow and make short rushes at people who get near the cubs, but will almost never press home an attack. Deliberate predatory attacks are very rare and typically occur in remote areas. ... [Read More]

State Regulations for Vermont
28. Domestic Fur-Bearing Animals means fur-bearing animals wild bynature which have been brought into and kept in captivity and the increase of thesame so kept upon any farm or ranch for the purpose of propagating the same forthe production of fur or breeding stock including but not limited to foxes andmink. ...

In the event that the domestic animal cannot be returned to the state oforigin, the animal shall be slaughtered or euthanized within 72 hours of adetermination by the commissioner that the animal has been illegally imported.The owner of the domestic animal shall bear the full expense of its destructionor removal from Vermont, and shall not be entitled to any compensation from thestate. ... [Read More]