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Wildlife Officials Considered Hiring Hunters To Kill Near Aspen

ASPEN, Colo. (CBS4) - Wildlife officials are hoping hunters will help them thin out the bear population as bears keep getting into campsites near Aspen.

The Aspen Times reported that state officials actually considered hiring professional hunters to kill bears that were raiding sites at Crater Lake near the Maroon Bells.

ASPEN BEARS MAP
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Instead they are urging permitted hunters to focus on the area and the surrounding Roaring Fork Valley.

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