New Trump public land rules will let Alaska hunters kill bear cubs in dens
Source: Guardian
The amazingly cruel move by the National Park Service reverses Obama-era regulations which also affect wolves and coyotes
Emily Holden in Washington
Thu 28 May 2020 06.30 EDT
The Trump administration is finalizing rules that will allow hunters in Alaskas 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 Americas wildlife at the behest of oil companies and trophy hunters.
The park services deputy director, David Vela, said the change would more closely align hunting and trapping regulations with those established by the state of Alaska.
The regulation is expected to be formally published this week. Alaska laws would still apply. The state generally prohibits killing bear cubs, but it allows some exceptions in Alaskas interior region.
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2020/may/28/alaska-bears-wolves-trump-rules-hunters
Bernardo de La Paz
(50,642 posts)lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)He must be cleaning his shotgun right now.
Botany
(72,234 posts)I smell Stephen Miller all over this diversion by Trump.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)It's to break our spirits, pure and simple.
My god how much damage will these evil people do?
Hotler
(11,968 posts)He's probably put the bug in the orange one's ear to have the CNN news crew rousted.
Vinca
(50,861 posts)3Hotdogs
(13,294 posts)It will generate more negative reaction against Trump and most of the other shit he has pulled or is pulling.
Cubs are cute. Everyone identifies with cubs.
keithbvadu2
(39,763 posts)Poachers Slaughter Hibernating Bear And Her Cubs In Horrifying Video
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This American Trophy Hunter Shot a Sleeping Lion
https://www.democraticunderground.com/100211972016
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)It is conical a traditional delicacy
Coventina
(27,792 posts)Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)He did it every winter
Actually here
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.spokesman.com/stories/2018/feb/03/activists-debate-native-hibernating-bear-hunting/%3Famp-content%3Damp
Coventina
(27,792 posts)components, then OK.
If they are driving up to the dens in SUVs, then getting out ATVs, snow mobiles, etc. and shooting with guns, then I call bullshit.
Not all "traditional" practices are acceptable behavior.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)Lol. Its not what you think, but whatever. It is part of their culture, there are plenty of bears, and if they eat it - why do I care?
We eat lamb, veal, and roasting chicken - all young animals. Steers and heifers too.
If you eat meat, something has to die. Im not really into this fair chase nonsense. I am all about eating what you kill
Coventina
(27,792 posts)FGM is "culture".
Should Scandinavian countries be allowed to rape and pillage during non-growing seasons because it's "part of their traditional culture"?
If they are eating Big Macs at their local McDonald's then, no, it's not "part of their culture."
It's just an excuse for cruelty.
Drahthaardogs
(6,843 posts)This is why people mock vegetarians
Coventina
(27,792 posts)Bayard
(24,012 posts)Bengus81
(7,325 posts)IcyPeas
(22,506 posts)and he is one by one undoing everything and anything with Obama's name on it.
just for spite
dhill926
(16,894 posts)Bayard
(24,012 posts)Killing off people, wildlife, the environment, rule of law. America. I really cannot understand such sociopathic motives, even if Putin is pulling the strings.
I'm rooting for the bears to maul them.
olddad65
(599 posts)BusyBeingBest
(8,292 posts)turbinetree
(25,195 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Or shot to death by anti-poachers.
Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)?435
TheFourthMind
(343 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)TheFourthMind
(343 posts)because your reacting to words and presumptions that came from you, not me. So again, which one of the people you posted has been mauled or killed for poaching or hunting? Which has killed a wolf or bear and risked being mauled or killed? Are you suggesting one can be mauled by a duck? Or killed by anti-poachers for killing one?
Kaleva
(37,884 posts)That your main issue is with hunters who use unethical means, violate the law or are trophy hunters.
LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)That's just some basic language comprehension and logic. Seems little more than bias on your part to seek an allowance neither offered not implied.
Kaleva
(37,884 posts)Dial H For Hero
(2,971 posts)Quite obviously, none of the individuals I posted have been mauled or killed by animals. Again, to clarify: Do you only find joy in reports of the violent deaths of those who hunt wolves & bears (or are killed by anti-poachers), or do you also derive pleasure from accounts of duck and deer hunters dying in the field (as does occasionally happen)?
Kaleva
(37,884 posts)"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/