Phil, you did great, considering that you don't even live in the US!
We sure can't get the news from the news. Last night, a local Los Angeles news story reported about how the state was planning to offer more bear tags this next season to help take care of the increasing bear population problem. They let some tree-hugger lady spout her entire spiel about how the state just wanted to breed bears for revenue, but only showed clips of those opposed basically saying, "duh, it ain't so." I'm sure that if they asked someone in the know, they could have elaborated on the fact that this is actually good for the bear population and how rather than paying a state employee, or contractor to hunt the bears, it is worth allowing hunters to pay for the licenses. Someone may have given that answer, but our news wanted to editorialize by omission. Hey, it's CA!