What he did was illegal and gives hunters a black eye in the public's eye. Ironically there's a recent thread on Hunt WA about "high fence" hunting. Most members here took a very dim view of anyone who would participate. This goes far beyond that in terms of a lack of fair chase. Should baiting be legal? Perhaps, but it is not currently. If he had done this with more discretion it would not be as egregious. The subject title of this thread is appropriate.
"Taking his bear easily from the adirondack chair off the back of the cabin," says Officer Dan Christensen with the Department of Fish and Wildlife. "We had at one time 12 bears coming into this site."
Video and pictures from a trail camera Erickson set up off the back porch of his cabin captured bears' every move and every meal. He and other friends and family used the footage to stalk and often kill bears right in his own back yard.
"They had a chair that they kind of designated the bear hunting chair," says Christensen. "It's kind of a fair chase issue."
