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Baiting grizzly bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease. Using spotlights to blind and shoot hibernating black bear mothers and their cubs in their dens. Gunning down swimming caribou from motorboats.

Hunting methods that for years were decried by wildlife protectors and finally banned as barbaric by the Obama administration will be legal again on millions of acres of Alaskan wilderness in time for the warm July weather.

The National Park Service policy published the new rules in the Federal Register on Tuesday, reversing Obama administration rules and giving trophy hunters, outfitters and Alaskans 30 days to prepare to return to national preserves in Alaska with the revived practices. Among the reinstated tactics: killing wolves and coyotes, including pups, during the season when mothers wean their young, and using dogs to hunt bears.

Expanding hunting rights on federal lands has been a priority under the Trump administration, and an issue championed by the president’s son, Donald Trump Jr., an avid hunter. In February the Safari Club International, which promotes big-game hunting, auctioned a weeklong “dream hunt” through Alaska with the president’s son as part of its annual convention.

bmforre wrote: ↑

Wed Jun 10, 2020 1:39 am

Expanding hunting rights on federal lands has been a priority under the Trump administration,

kerrya1 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:08 am

I don't really understand why "hunters" would want to do this

tom p wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 11:57 am

kerrya1 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:08 am

I don't really understand why "hunters" would want to do this

A cheap thrill for micro-penised micro-brained psychopaths.

kerrya1 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:08 am

I don't really understand why "hunters" would want to do this - surely the challenge of hunting is to find, track, and kill your prey to prove your skill in hunting. All of these activities seem to totally eliminate the skill element.

Are they actually intended as "pest control" but then exploited by, mostly, men with big guns and bigger egos who consider the photo op and trophy more important than the actual hunt?

FlammableFlower wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 1:02 pm

kerrya1 wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 9:08 am

I don't really understand why "hunters" would want to do this - surely the challenge of hunting is to find, track, and kill your prey to prove your skill in hunting. All of these activities seem to totally eliminate the skill element.

Are they actually intended as "pest control" but then exploited by, mostly, men with big guns and bigger egos who consider the photo op and trophy more important than the actual hunt?

It's also for the lazy, more risk averse ones. "Hey look I can kill this mighty beast (and I didn't have to inconvenience myself or put myself in any harm in away way whatsoever)."

Bird on a Fire wrote: ↑

Thu Jun 11, 2020 4:24 pm

Yeah, it's just killing animals for fun, like the meat industry.