The next time Minnesota law enforcement officers have a bear in a tree, could they please consult Colorado wildlife officials and not the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources for a more viable way to handle the situation ("Bear shot, killed in St. Paul's Frogtown," April 30)?

I cannot imagine why the situation in Frogtown should be handled so differently than one just days earlier in which a bear that had wandered onto the campus of the University of Colorado at Boulder was moved to a more suitable habitat.

My husband and I got a kick out of the photo of the Colorado bear falling out of a tree onto a pad after being tranquilized, but at the time I sarcastically said, "In Minnesota, we" -- meaning law enforcement and the DNR -- "would just kill it." I'm sorry my words were so aptly prescient.


ANN STRONG-SCHMITZ, EDEN PRAIRIE