BALTIMORE - Victoria Meshcheryakova’s hair clung to her flushed cheeks, damp with sweat.

Dressed from head to toe in a polyester bear suit, the Silver Spring resident joined a small group of animal activists in a last-ditch effort to thwart Maryland’s bear hunting season, which started this morning.

“It’s absolutely unnecessary,” said Meshcheryakova on Sunday afternoon outside Gov. Martin O’Malley’s mansion in Annapolis.

“I just love animals. I think we can coexist.”

During the next several days, holders of the 220 state-issued hunting permits will prowl Maryland’s hunt zone, encompassing all of Allegheny and Garrett counties, for one of the state’s estimated 500 black bears.

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