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Trump Ends Obama’s Ban on Bear Baiting and Other Cruel Hunting Techniques in Alaska
New York Magazine ^ | May 22, 2018 | By Ed Kilgore

Posted on 05/22/2018 1:59:50 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

It’s the sort of thing that drives animal-rights advocates and other elite bunny-hugging liberals wild, to the delight of politically incorrect red-blooded MAGA-men. As NBC News reports, the Trump administration is bringing back savage hunting techniques to federal lands in Alaska:

The Trump administration is moving to reverse Obama-era rules barring hunters on some public lands in Alaska from baiting brown bears with bacon and doughnuts and using spotlights to shoot mother black bears and cubs hibernating in their dens.

There are a lot of humans, much less bears, who can’t resist bacon and doughnuts. But before you can say “Sarah Palin,” there’s more:

Under the proposed changes, hunters would also be allowed to hunt black bears with dogs, kill wolves and pups in their dens, and use motor boats to shoot swimming caribou.

These and other hunting methods - condemned as cruel by wildlife protection advocates - were outlawed on federal lands in 2015. That was, of course, under President Obama, who hated Real Americans.

(Excerpt) Read more at nymag.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: alaska; bears; regulation
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To: Hot Tabasco

I doubt many KS farmers truly rely on big game to feed their families, but Alaskans do. So wolves decimating the local game animals is a big deal. You have to factor that into what’s “ethical”. I don’t know if hunting them in their dens is legal in AK (it may have been a non issue), but I do know they’ve tried just about everything else in some areas.


81 posted on 05/22/2018 10:05:18 PM PDT by Hugin (Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Obama and his entourage of Muslim Brotherhoodlums and Bill Ayers communisty organizers has caused irreparable harm to our society,

but they arent even done yet, today on the "news" I heard they are starting a revisionist history channel on TV.....just great.....I can see it now

82 posted on 05/22/2018 10:11:18 PM PDT by KTM rider ( .......than to post and remove all doubt)
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To: JBW1949
We’d drive the logging roads and have a “strike” dog on the hood or the top

I forgot about the logging roads. They do extended quite a ways north. Fisherman and poachers also use them. Some years ago we started a canoe trip from a lodge on a big body of water over a hundred miles from the nearest paved road. We set camp the first night at the portage on the big lake. Later that evening a bass boat pulls into the portage area and starts fishing. We are like WTF. The outfitter later said the logging roads reach that far north..

83 posted on 05/23/2018 1:22:09 AM PDT by EVO X
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To: Figment
A lot of the gentleman explained it for me. Didn't realize it was a norm. Hunted deer....not bear.

My son in law got a bear a couple years back in the Southern tier, NYS. My daughter didn't appreciate the new rug.

84 posted on 05/23/2018 1:28:36 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Gotta find the bear - rather than have it find you first......I don’t consider hunting a sport - no sane man will want to give the bear/boar/lion a sporting chance....


85 posted on 05/23/2018 2:12:48 AM PDT by trebb (I stopped picking on the mentally ill hypocrite<i> Yet anoths who pose as conservatives...mostly ;-})
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To: CollegeRepublican

I never thought hunting with dogs should be banned, but sort of was against the idea. Until I met some hunters that hunted bears with their dogs. NE Washington State before the ban. Those guys were sure devoted to their dogs. After talking with them a bit it seemed like the hunt was more about the dogs than it ever was about the bear.

It’s been a long time, but I seem to remember they were worried what was going to become of the dogs. “These guys (the dogs) LOVE to hunt, I don’t know what they’ll do without it.”

And I don’t have to have bow-hunters “understand” me hunting with a rifle, and I don’t need to “understand” those guys hunting with their dogs. But it didn’t take much time hanging around them that I think I got a reasonable understanding of it.


86 posted on 05/23/2018 2:36:44 AM PDT by 21twelve
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To: Beagle8U

I don’t think that that would work on black tails.


87 posted on 05/23/2018 7:19:56 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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To: FatherofFive

“They are going to murder Yogi and BooBoo!”

Bait them with some Pic-a-nic baskets.


88 posted on 05/23/2018 7:23:02 AM PDT by READINABLUESTATE
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To: Hugin

For several years, with my son and I both harvesting a couple of deer each, my family of 5 didn’t spend more than $100 a year on meat...


89 posted on 05/23/2018 7:37:15 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: JBW1949

Make that beef...not meat...We did buy chicken...


90 posted on 05/23/2018 7:38:06 AM PDT by JBW1949 (I'm really PC....PATRIOTICALLY CORRECT!!!!)
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To: gundog

Why not? It works with every deer species that has a home range.


91 posted on 05/23/2018 8:35:05 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Liberals can kiss my bitter clingers!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

You objecters are ignoring one important word ...”ALASKA”...

Not your average bear.


92 posted on 05/23/2018 9:09:07 AM PDT by faucetman (Just the facts, ma'am, Just the facts)
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To: Beagle8U

You can’t see very far in a Blacktail’s home range. And I’ve seen hoof dents in the heads of dogs a lot bigger than beagles.


93 posted on 05/23/2018 9:41:40 AM PDT by gundog (Hail to the Chief, bitches.)
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