Northern New Jersey is a wonderful place to live. We have had many black bear experiences over the years. Although 4-5 years ago we use to see a lot more than we do today. I have been in the park the past 6 weeks 53 hours riding and have only seen bears twice. Five years ago I would see them almost every ride and every day in my yard. This year I have only seen 1 in my yard.
I have had one very scary experience when a bear followed my horse and me on one of our trails. The following day I went back into the woods on the same trail and looked for footprings and found small footprints; it was a young bear probably still confused about being booted out by mom.
In NJ they want to have a bear hunting season, which I am strongly against, even with the experience of being followed. I feel very safe in my woods and neighborhood. Living so very close to state land where hunting is permitted is very scary. There are many hunters that are responsible but there are also those who will shoot at anything that moves. They don't have to see what it is to take a shot at it. I am not against hunting, I love venison and I feel that hunting for the meat is great. But this is a very populated area and we see hunters behind our homes all through hunting season, hearing shots occasionally. I am more afraid of being shot by a hunter or having one of our animals shot then being attacked by a bear.
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This is one of my fonts.I couldn't find any equine fonts on the web so I designed my own. I used Talla as my model for most of the fonts. The fonts with riders are Talla with me and a friend and different friends on their horses.