bear-hound hunting
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Letter to the editor: Trapping, hound hunting cruel
I recently became aware that Vermont’s Silvio O. Conte National Wildlife Refuge allows both the hounding of bears, bobcats, coyotes and other wildlife, as well as the use…
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Letter to the editor: Hunting bears with hounds harms many species
Many of us in Vermont are not looking forward to the bear hunt that begins on September 1st and runs through mid November. It’s one of the longest…
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Letter to the editor: Hunting hound treatment was misrepresented
I would like to reply to some of the assertions made by Alana Stevenson in her letter to the editor in the March 4 Addison Independent (“Hound hunting…
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Letter to the editor: Hound hunting for the few at expense of many
There is a bill in the House, H. 172, that will ban bear hounding and I ask that everyone support it. There is also a bill, H. 316,…
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Letter to the editor: Just say dogs can’t attack humans, ever
Senator Chris Bray’s legislative bill to control bear hounds shows he has no understanding of what hunting with hounds entails. The hounds go where the bear goes, the…
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Senate bill would regulate bear hounds
MONTPELIER — Five months after a pair of hikers and their puppy were attacked by bear-hunting hounds in the Green Mountain National Forest in Goshen, the Senate Committee…
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Letter to the editor: Legislation would curtail hound hunter activities
The negative language that has been added to S.321 threatens both the hunting community and the integrity of the Fish and Wildlife Department. Senator Chris Bray stated on…
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Letter to the editor: Legislature should change bear-hound hunting law
I am writing concerning the ongoing coverage of the outrageous incident of bear hounds attacking an out-of-state couple and their dog in Ripton. This story, from the standpoint…
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Bear-hound attack shocks hunting community
Editor’s note: This story is second in a series. The first, “Bear-hunting hounds attack hikers and pup,” was published on October 31, 2019. VERMONT — Members of the…
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Bear-hunting hounds attack hikers and pup
RIPTON — On Saturday, Oct. 19, around mid-day, a pack of bear hunting dogs attacked two hikers and their puppy on the Catamount Trail in the Green Mountain…