By Chad Love

With a record number of nuisance grizzly bears being trapped in Montana, some are asking if it's time to remove the grizzly from its listing under the Endangered Species Act.

From this story in The Missoulian:

The number of grizzly bears captured in Montana's Northern Continental Divide Ecosystem set records this year, prompting discussions among state wildlife officials about a new era in grizzly bear management.

Conflicts between bears and humans soared during the 2011 season and kept grizzly bear managers extremely busy, particularly in northwestern Montana. In the past 10 days alone, six additional bears were removed from the wild, according to John Fraley, spokesman for Region 1 of Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks.

By Chad Love

An ancient fish hook recently discovered in a cave reveals that early humans were catching deep sea pelagic fish like tuna a whole lot earlier than previously thought.

From this story in the UK Daily Mail:

Humans mastered the art of catching fast-moving, deep-water fish such as tuna more than 40,000 years ago, archaeologists revealed today. A team of Australian experts have uncovered evidence of the practice in a small cave at the eastern end of East Timor, north of Australia, which contained the bones of more than 2,800 fish. Some were caught as long as 42,000 years ago.

By Chad Love

So what's the duckiest city in America? Stuttgart, Arkansas, according to this Reuters story:

Rocker Ted Nugent has hunted duck in Arkansas. So have former Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. They are not alone. Stuttgart, about 55 miles east of Little Rock, is known as the duck capital of the world. For the next two months, thousands of hunters will descend on eastern Arkansas and drop millions into the state's economy. The Stuttgart Chamber of Commerce estimates that duck hunting contributes more than $1 million a day to the town's economy. This year's season opened on Saturday.

--Chad Love

A Washington state woman whose forest worker husband was shot and killed by a bear hunter is now suing the hunter and the timber company who owns the land on which the accident occurred, claiming the company should not have let hunters and forestry workers in the same area.

From this story on thenewstribune.com:

The widow of a man fatally shot by a hunter who mistook him for a bear has filed a wrongful-death lawsuit against the hunter and three Western Washington companies, one of them headquartered in Tacoma. Marta Gomez-Mendoza contends Gerald Aldrich “failed to exercise reasonable care to identify his target” before he accidentally killed her husband, Carlos Pablo-Carrillo, in the Mason County woods in September 2010.