Dive summary:

• A waste employee at the Pitkin County Landfill in Colorado was terminated after he killed a black bear on facility grounds with a bow and arrow.
• It is estimated that 15 bears are currently scavenging around the landfill, officials have permitted the hunting of the bears as a last option to get rid of them.
• The shooter would have been in the legal green area if he had just waited one day until hunting season officially started and he received his license.
   

From the article:

A Pitkin County Landfill employee was terminated after he was involved in the killing of a black bear on the facility's grounds.

Jesse Schoeller's exit took effect Sept. 10, according to Dannette Logan, the county's human resources director. She noted, in an email, that “termination and/or separation of employment are one in the same.” Schoeller, 26, of Carbondale, declined comment for this story.

The alleged killing, achieved with two shots from a bow and arrow, became public Monday when the Colorado Division of Wildlife filed a case report in Pitkin County Court on Schoeller, along with paperwork requiring him to answer four charges. ...