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marmar

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Mon Jun 1, 2020, 09:42 AM Jun 2020

New Trump public land rules will let Alaska hunters kill bear cubs in dens


(Guardian UK) The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaska’s national preserves to shoot bears and wolves, and their cubs and pups, while they are in their dens.

The National Park Service is reversing regulations written by the Barack Obama administration, which banned some of the much-criticized practices for hunting the predators, including luring bears with food like doughnuts.

Jesse Prentice-Dunn, policy director for the Center for Western Priorities, called the rule change “amazingly cruel” and said it was “just the latest in a string of efforts to reduce protections for America’s wildlife at the behest of oil companies and trophy hunters”.

The park service’s deputy director, David Vela, said the change would “more closely align hunting and trapping regulations with those established by the state of Alaska”. ...........(more)

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/28/alaska-bears-wolves-trump-rules-hunters




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New Trump public land rules will let Alaska hunters kill bear cubs in dens (Original Post) marmar Jun 2020 OP
Evil fuckers Ferrets are Cool Jun 2020 #1
Please get rid of these bastards now! Rhiannon12866 Jun 2020 #2
"the Tanana Chiefs Conference,...supports the rollback." Kaleva Jun 2020 #3
Don Jr. just found his new vacation destination. Midnight Writer Jun 2020 #4

Kaleva

(36,147 posts)
3. "the Tanana Chiefs Conference,...supports the rollback."
Mon Jun 1, 2020, 01:12 PM
Jun 2020

"Victor Joseph, chair of the Tanana Chiefs Conference, said the group representing 42 tribes in the Interior supports the rollback. The 2015 rule was implemented without “adequate tribal consultation," he said in a statement sent by the park service.

“The previous limitations enacted in 2015 threatened our way of life and our centuries-long sustainable management practices," he said in the statement."

https://www.adn.com/alaska-news/2020/05/21/trump-administration-moves-to-ease-rules-for-hunting-bears-and-wolves-on-federal-lands-in-alaska/

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