Lisa P. Jackson, the environmental commissioner, opposed the hunt, which had been scheduled for next month, saying other means of controlling bears, such as better storage of garbage, had not received enough attention.
The dispute pits the donors of the land, the Conservation Fund and the Richard King Mellon Foundation, against a pistol-packing commissioner adamant about preserving hunting and firearms rights on the property, even at the cost of denying the land to the National Park Service, although Texas ranks 44th in park land.
After Lamar Hunt died, N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell tried to integrate Clark Hunt into the league's management.
Mr. Corzine, who has said since his election campaign last year that he opposes the hunt, asked the commissioner of environmental protection, Lisa Jackson, left, to explore other methods, including chemical contraception.
The small, obscure agency that writes New Jersey's hunting laws rebuffed the state's environmental commissioner yesterday and proposed a new black bear hunt this December, similar to last December's controversial six-day hunt.
In one telling example, Stavros Dimas, the European environment commissioner who insisted on the hunting crackdown to protect the endangered predators, received a bullet in his mailbox from an irate hunter.
"The four eaglets that came in June are living among other adolescent eagles and perfecting their hunting skills," Adrian Benepe, commissioner of parks and recreation, said in a phone conversation last week.
William Strazza, the lawyer for the local groups, the Bear Group and the New Jersey Animal Rights Alliance, has now asked the state's environmental commissioner, Bradley M. Campbell, to call off the hunt.
So if the Parks Commissioner is seriously on a treasure hunt for more land, she won't have to search very hard.
Alex Rodriguez's lawsuit claiming Major League Baseball and Commissioner Bud Selig went on a "witch hunt" to force him from the sport was moved to federal court from state court after baseball filed a "notice of removal".
