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bullwinkle428

(20,629 posts)
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:45 AM May 2018

Trump Team Moves To Lift Ban On 'Extreme' Hunting Tactics In Alaska

The Trump administration on Monday proposed rolling back a 2015 rule that bans aggressive predator control tactics in national preserves in Alaska, including shooting bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens ― a move immediately blasted by environmental groups.

The proposal, slated to be published Tuesday in the Federal Register, would amend the National Park Service’s current regulations to again allow for controversial sport hunting and trapping techniques on roughly 20 million acres of federal lands in Alaska. The park service, part of the Department of the Interior, said lifting the prohibitions would increase hunting opportunities on national preserve land, as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called for in a pair of secretarial orders last year.

The proposed rule would allow hunters to lure brown and black bears with bait, hunt black bears and their cubs using artificial lights, shoot bear cubs and wolf and coyote pups in their dens, and use dogs to hunt black bears. It would also allow hunters to shoot swimming caribou from motorboats.


https://www.huffingtonpost.ca/entry/alaska-preserve-predator-hunting-interior-proposed-rule_us_5b032131e4b0a046186ecabe
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Trump Team Moves To Lift Ban On 'Extreme' Hunting Tactics In Alaska (Original Post) bullwinkle428 May 2018 OP
Hurry up Mueller! SHRED May 2018 #1
That is sick JustAnotherGen May 2018 #2
The boys want to go hunting closer to home? Frustratedlady May 2018 #3
Undoing more of Obama's legacy? This is just disgusting and should be called hunting. Arkansas Granny May 2018 #4
This makes me want to vomit and so does Trump and his mob. OregonBlue May 2018 #5
What kind of a sick fuck do you have to be Phoenix61 May 2018 #6
We had a governor in Alaska SonofDonald May 2018 #7
Very sporting Bayard May 2018 #8

Frustratedlady

(16,254 posts)
3. The boys want to go hunting closer to home?
Tue May 22, 2018, 09:58 AM
May 2018

This would be their type of hunting. Where's the sport in shooting cubs and pups in their dens?

Maybe Palin can take them on a tour and show them the tricks of the trade. Boobs!

Phoenix61

(17,003 posts)
6. What kind of a sick fuck do you have to be
Tue May 22, 2018, 10:11 AM
May 2018

to want to shoot a cub or pup in its den? It won't take long for them to wipe out every living thing.

SonofDonald

(2,050 posts)
7. We had a governor in Alaska
Tue May 22, 2018, 11:49 AM
May 2018

That years later when asked about his position on hunting wolves said

"We just can't let nature run wild"

I lived in Alaska for 17 years and believe me the stupid runs deep up there.

For decades the politicians just had to say they wouldn't stop the permanent fund dividend checks from being distributed.

And they got another term, yup, that's all it took......

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