Trump Just Lifted A Ban On Shooting Bears And Wolves From Airplanes In Alaska

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Trump seems to do nasty repeals just for the sake of a photo op. Maybe his sons want to go airplane hunting???





Trump Just Lifted A Ban On Shooting Bears And Wolves From Airplanes In Alaska

https://www.buzzfeed.com/salvadorhernandez/trump-just-lifted-a-ban-on-shooting-bears-and-wolves-from?utm_term=.jpQxJKWnl#.gbXp4VeKR

An Obama-era rule prohibited the hunting of predator animals like bears and wolves in Alaska's national wildlife refuges.

Posted on April 3, 2017, at 9:57 p.m.


Charles Rex Arbogast / AP

Shooting wolves and bears from airplanes is once again legal in Alaska's national wildlife refuges after President Trump signed legislation to allow the hunting of predator animals.

The legislation signed Monday repeals a federal rule put in place during the Obama administration that banned the aerial shooting or baiting of animals with food in order to curb the population of bears, wolves and other predators.

Put in place by the US Fish and Wildlife Service in August 2016, the rule prohibited the hunting of predator animals unless it was authorized by a refuge manager. It also outlined specific times when the ban could be temporarily lifted in order to reduce a predator population if the decision had been evaluated and other alternatives studied.

Former Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe, characterized the hunting tactics at the time as "a withering attack on bears and wolves that is wholly at odds with America’s long tradition of ethical, sportsmanlike, fair-chase hunting."

Alaskan lawmakers disagreed.

“Not only was it a massive jurisdictional power grab, it clearly undermined the laws passed by Congress to protect Alaska’s authority to manage fish and wildlife upon all our lands,” Alaska Rep. Don Young, a Republican, said in a statement earlier this month when the Senate passed the resolution along a party-line vote. “Alaskans take the management of our lands and wildlife extremely serious.”
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The ban also prohibited the killing of bears when they were near cubs or dens.

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And a few comments:


Bucky James Dio
I seriously hope Alaska has some recourse to fight this decree. Shooting animals from the air is the weakest and most pathetic way to hunt. No self-respecting hunter will do this, and it's shameful that Trump would enact this for no reason other than to reverse anything good that Obama did. Let it go, Donnie. Do something useful for a change. Stop picking off prior laws from a safe place. It's pathetic.
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Andrea Andrews · Monsignor Doyle Catholic Secondary School
Did we really expect anything better from Trump and his "people"? The problem isn't about the people in Alaska, who understand the importance of a healthy, natural ecosystem, the problem will come from the rich assholes who fly in from other states to go on a "hunting" trip!
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[Rhiannon12866]

1. Why??

[RelativelyJones]

2. To prove a hideous point.

[Eliot Rosewater]

4. Because it harms, GOP and trump especially only harm, never help.

Worst human beings on the planet run our government.

[LakeArenal]

5. Authoritarians love the stranglehold...

You can't just win, you must crush...

[murielm99]

9. Gratuitous cruelty.

There is no other reason for most of his orders.

[Charles Bukowski]

3. Palin must have got in his ear.

Forget Trump, I can't find a single solitary redeeming quality in American conservatism either. Horrible ideology, horrible people.

[BillyBobBrilliant]

6. So let's see,

If we dress him up in a bear suit, and...

[Moral Compass]

7. How can I make the country worse?

It is as if he gets up every morning and thinks how can I make the country worse today?

Can anyone out there think of a single positive thing that Trump has done since he has been in the office?

Some of what he does seems to be out of some sense of simple meanness. What a spoiled little rich brat he is at the age of 70 years old.

[judesedit]

8. Maybe Rump will go to Alaska and someone will

"accidentally" miss their target.

[Wolf Frankula]

10. Will Someone Get Hokey

Wolf a rocket launcher?

Wolf