1.   Dr. Horace Beck, a professor emeritus at Middlebury College, shot the bear in Alaska, the elk in Idaho, and the antelope in Wyoming.

2.   Finding and shooting the bear in northwest Canada was hard enough.

3.   In addition, property owners have a right to shoot a bear that is threatening human life.

4.   In all his fears, his attempt to shoot the bear was unsuccessful.

5.   Lyle Sidener, district wildlife manager in the Division of Wildlife, wrote in a report on a June incident where a landowner had shot a bear.

6.   More animal-rights activists and even some hunters are contending that it is unethical to shoot bears that have been driven into trees or lured to food.

7.   Only for a single week this autumn will hunters here be allowed to shoot bears out of trees.

8.   Shooting bears, however, is currently illegal.

9.   Should packs of dogs be permitted to tree bears, after which a hunter shoots the bear out of the tree?

10.   The hunter shoots the bear with the shotgun.