Don't see the big deal in allowing the hunt. Habitat destruction from refineries, pipelines terminals and other industrial activity up and down the coast will wipe out their habitat anyway, as will the continuing encroachment of human development and population growth in BC. A look south to California offers a glimpse of the future of the bear population in BC.  Nature is not compatible with an endless growth focused economic model plain and simple. Economic growth is the conversion of nature into human products for consumption. We have to stop pretending that we can save nature from ourselves and instead just enjoy the opulent party wile it lasts. Look at the history of North America and the toll it has taken on species. It can't be stopped.