How is hunting over bait “cruel”? As for killing wolves in their dens, that’s more population control than hunting. Alaska has way too many wolves and have been giving out wolf permits with every hunting tag, but it still hasn’t solved it. In any case the state can devise their own regs without a bunch of DC bureaucrats chiming in.
Hunting over bait is not cruel but it is unsportsmanlike, for certain, where we were raised in Southern Illinois and Missouri you would be teased mercilessly if it became known you hunted over bait and you’d probably get a visit from the warden, but that was deer hunting as bear had not yet repopulated the hills. On the other hand, in Alaska life can be harsh and hunting is often much more than just a sport and a lot of people subsist on it. When it comes to survival there is nothing wrong with being unsportsmanlike so long as there is no risk of exterminating a species.
Hunting caribou [and moose] from boats isn’t new.... indigenous people have done it for ages. The motor’s new, but the principle is the same.
It’s really not entirely the federal government’s business, even on Federal land within states- there should be some local control over local resources regardless of who owns the land, certainly if states have a say over private individuals who own land within their borders, why should the Federal government landowner be exempted when their population of ‘nuisance animals’ cross borders onto local property to prey on livestock or desirable wildlife on adjacent land?
It's an "ethical" thing that you obviously don't understand......Not even Kansas farmers hunt down coyotes during birthing season and kill the parents and the cubs.......