Nevada's Bear Hunt Returns This Fall - KTVN Channel 2 - Reno
Tahoe News Weather, Video -  Nevada's Bear Hunt Returns This
Fall  Posted: Updated:  John Potter  Channel 2 News  Carl
Lackey's truck is his office. About 70% of his job as wildlife
biologist for the Nevada Department of Wildlife is taken up by
bears, a beautiful part of the old west that lately has
become…difficult. Carl told us, "With the weather conditions
we're having so far this year, I anticipate a bad bear year."
It wasn't always this way. The department's Chris Healy says
things changed about 20 years ago. "We had that drought in the
early 1990's that forced the wild bear population to actually
come down and start utilizing garbage as a source of food."
After all the controversy last year over Nevada's first bear
hunt, the back and forth on bears has taken another turn. New
regulations proposed would shorten the bear hunt this year, and
leave Tahoe out of it. But they're not being considered to save
some bears. Rather, it's to protect more