I was especially concerned about this because the Division of Fish and Wildlife's internal projection of the current population has increased by more than 70 percent over the past several months,"" wrote the commissioner, who describes himself as an "occasional hunter," although not of bears.

In the earlier periods of mankind's settlement of the area, it will have seen the occasional hunter or gatherer stalking or trapping game for the pot.

They still killed an occasional unwary hunter, for they had no fear, and they had teeth and claws as well as fire to subdue their prey, but they were no longer a serious threat.

In March 2002, he voted against banning the hunting of wild mammals with dogs, being an occasional hunter himself.

Before the day was out they would encounter a few more paths, used mainly by an occasional hunter or trapper.

After thirty years, prospecting came to an end and the track was virtually forgotten after 1900, becoming overgrown and seldom used except by an occasional hunter.

Apart from a martial-history painting, "The Battle of Bennington"-which she did at the request of the Daughters of the American Revolution-and an occasional gun-wielding hunter, no hints of violence appear after 1943.

And there always will be the occasional immigrant with Norwegian names and language intact, such as Rolf Larsen, the last surviving Norwegian whale hunter in Durban.

Avoiding turtles had brought me to those outermost regions, a part of the forest seen only by solitaries and the occasional hunter.

"It is not fair chase," said Edgar P. Bailey, a retired biologist and an occasional hunter who owns a 650-acre wildlife preserve on the Kenai Peninsula.