Trump administration wants to reinstate cruel hunting practices in Alaska, like killing hibernating bears, shooting wolf pups in dens
The proposed rule would undo an Obama-era regulation that prohibits such controversial and scientifically unjustified methods of hunting as using artificial light to kill hibernating bears and their cubs and shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens. Photo by Alamy
The Trump administration is trying to bring back some of the worst and most appalling hunting practices for wolves, grizzly bears and other wildlife on 20 million acres of federal public lands in Alaska. A rule proposed today by the Department of the Interior would roll back an Obama-era regulation that prohibits such controversial and scientifically unjustified methods of hunting as using artificial light to kill hibernating bears and their cubs, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou, and using dogs to hunt black bears.
This proposal is unlawful because it conflicts with clear statutory directives from Congress that the National Park Service must conserve and protect wildlife in national preserves.
For years, the National Park Service has pushed back against Alaska’s increased use of fringe hunting methods that prioritize trophy hunting over conservation. After being fed up with the state’s efforts to expand killing of predators on national preserves in order to have more ungulates such as caribou to hunt, the NPS, in 2014, began work on a rule that was finalized the following year. That rule made clear that certain methods of hunting that Alaska sanctions for predator control are inconsistent with the NPS’s conservation mandates, and are prohibited on national preserves in Alaska.
Last year, when the state of Alaska and Safari Club International sued NPS to invalidate this crucial rule, the Humane Society of the United States intervened in the lawsuit to defend the rule and similar rules issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
Now, in a new ploy, the NPS is claiming that due to secretarial orders issued by Department of the Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke to expand hunting opportunities on federal lands and improve coordination with states, the agency is required to rescind these protections. In reality, the agency and Zinke have no authority to override Congressional protections for these federal lands.
This proposed rule also goes against the wishes of Alaskans themselves, and can hurt the state’s economy. A March 2016 poll found that most Alaskans abhor and oppose these hunting practices, and support putting a stop to these methods on federal lands. Alaska’s predator control practices also do not make any economic sense. Wildlife watching in Alaska contributes far more to local economies than trophy hunting. Like Alaskans, most Americans value wildlife and relish the unique opportunity to see bears, wolves, river otters, wolverines and lynx in Alaska’s national parks and preserves. Wildlife watchers who visit Alaska’s national parks and preserves, such as Denali, contribute more than $2 billion each year toward these activities, with wolves and grizzly bears among the biggest lures for tourists. Wildlife watching contributes five times more than the amount generated in Alaska from all hunting activity (and these extreme methods account for only a tiny fraction of total hunting in the state).
We need your help to stop the federal government from handing over some of our most precious wildlife to trophy hunters. Please post your comments here to tell the Department of the Interior that you do not support these methods of hunting, and urge them to keep the prohibitions in place. Here’s a sample message you can use or adapt: “I am opposed to the National Park Service’s plan to repeal the 2015 rule, which would be inconsistent with the agency’s statutory conservation mandate, prohibiting killing hibernating bears and their cubs using artificial light, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears to shoot them point blank, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou, and using dogs to hunt black bears. Americans do not support these hunting methods and travel to Alaska to see these wild animals, providing billions of essential dollars to the local economy to do so. Please keep these prohibitions in place.”
Stop the war on wildlife and their young!
Some “humans” are the worst!!!!
I so agree 😢
I am assuming you have no idea what people in this areas deal with concerning over population of bears and wolves yet still have an opinion of how to deal with it…
Overpopulation of who? You are taking th animals territory.
thank you
I am a proponent of protecting wildlife but you are not comprehending what he wrote. Because humans now also occupy the land (irrelevant of whether you like it or not), there exists a real and viable problem between living safely alongside animals particularly if their numbers increase at a level that can pose a threat to man. Instead of emotional and defensive postulating, how about a viable solution?
Controlling it is one thing wiping it out is another
Excellent answer Joni. There’s a BIG difference between hunting for food and clothing as it was done in the past. But, baiting, sending packs of dogs, hiding in blinds while the animal smells fake, bottled, animal scents, was way too much, but this is just plain murder.
What makes you more deserving of that land than the animals. They were there before humans. If they don’t like living among bears and wolves then they should leave. If a bear were to come in a home and kill the residents of that home, it would be an outrage. If they’re asleep in their dens, then they’re not bothering anybody.
Obviously there is an overpopulation of morons who want to kill bears and wolves hibernating with their young.
I agree! There is an over population of morons who want to kill kill kill!
Well put!
What to you mean “I am assuming you have no idea what people in this areas deal with concerning over population of bears and wolves yet still have an opinion of how to deal with it” these animals are magnificent and they do a great job with our ecosystem, and what did us human do??? All we did was just take their habitat away from them, cutting trees down, shooting animals for foolish trophies. Like what is this cruel world. Whoever is shooting these animals, just saying, what are you doing with your life. Imagine if you are a wolf cub, would any of you would like to be killed just for a trophy??? I am really disappointed at all of the people who are cruel enough to do these horrible things.
I agree. Trump wants to go back to the 1950s- to kill our wildlife. That wildlife belongs to US. There are rules, and there are laws on the books. We MUST protect our wild horses, and we MUST protect our wolves. To think that cowards can once again ambush a sleeping mother and cub in their own dens — it is untenable. What kind of person would do this? A psychopath, like Trump.
This is evil. Frankly, I wish we could wipe out all those “hunters” who cheat their way into killing OUR wolves.
I thought we’d never see these disgusting acts again. How quickly the evil people under Trump could roll them back. We MUST save species. The dolts don’t care about that. We need to save our wolves. What kind of “sportsman” would shoot a CUB in its den. These people are not HUNTERS. They are sick individuals who should never have been born.
The story is 100% untrue and it is fake news.
is it though? Did you do your homework Melissa???
Yes agree stop killing and hunting these animals.
@Linda, I am a member of this Humane society. THIS article is not totally true blaming Trump. I think the section that deals with animals has something to do with this! I suggest anyone that opposes what is going on here, contact the WH and tell they to fix this…That is what I intend to do. BUT its like the BLM has overstepped their boundaries for years!!! and that was under Obama! They are still KILLING the wild horses, cas they want the land. So Let us get the real story. What is the dept in charge of this? THAT is who is responsible!!!! and I will be checking on it!
OIC, the DEPT of Interior; Mr ZINKE. So that is who is incharge of this and the Elephant issue… So again, call or email the WH regarding this matter, and tell them your disdain.
Zinke is now gone.But God only knows what kind of reprobate Trump will choose. He is living in the 1950s. He thinks it’s great to kill wild animals. We MUST stop him. Trump is after two sets of animals. The wild horses, and the wolves. I don’t know who is now in charge. Zinke’s gone. We need to find out who that new guy is. Trump INSISTS on killing or wild horses in Northern Arizona and Nevada and Utah, and he loves the idea of cowards crawling into a den and killing wolf cubs. This is because Trump is a psychopath, and needs to be removed from the Oval Office.
The BLM rots🤬 Trump could stop them!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yes, THE BLM needs to stop this WILD HORSE roundup! Again, it is very easy, YOU can email the WH, or call the WH and tell
them To REINSTATE the PROTECTION for the Elephants and talk to them about the BLM….They were running amuck under OBAMA. HE doesnt know half of what is going on. TAKE the time to Email…or call the WH.
Whaaaat??!!!
So how long has this been going on?
If I am reading all this right, it has passed the house, but not the Senate..
Email, tweet, call your senators …..seems they are the only one that can stop it…
Yes,Tyson is wanting to electrocute chickens faster. That means alot of them will be cut up alive. Even rodeos are like feeding people to lions. Chinese meat FESTIVAL, check on that……
So many verses in the Holy Bible where God speaks on how His creations should be treated.
This was a great comment! So many blindly blame President Trump—-it’s time to wake up and get to the root of the problem, stop the blame game!
Work together on the issues—-save our wildlife—-bottom line.
Trump appointed Zinke head of the department of the interior. A man who has stuffed bear, elk, etc. In his office. Zinke is an avid supporter of all hunting, including trophy hunting. So yes I hold Trump responsible for this travesty, just as I hold him responsible for the actions of the EPA when he chose Pruitt, a man opposed to environmental protection, to run the EPA. It’s not blame. It’s truth and accountability.
Comment: Whether it is the government’s war on protected wild horses and burros, the NPS and BLM with the yearly culling of our national icon, the bison in the only indigenous herd in Yellowstone National Park, the slaughter and murder of denning animals while they are hibernating on having pups – THIS WHOLE THING IS AIMED AT DESTROYING THESE ANIMALS FOR OUR POSTERITY. Our government (which is the entire population of American citizens), is ignoring our anger and concern for the preservation of these and other wild animals. It is immoral. It is heinous that these policies are even considered as law.
I DO NOT GIVE CONGRESS OR ANY DEPARTMENT IN THE GOVERNMENT THE RIGHT TO DO THIS. DO YOU?
Ryan Zinke, the predator of wildlife and of wild horses and burros (protected by Act of Congress in 1976) and the prior Secretary of BLM, Sally Jewell were hideous choices and the puppets of the cattlemen’s lobby – the welfare ranchers, who introduce non-native species in the form of sheep and cattle for cheap grazing rights. Zinke is owned by them.
We worked long and hard to protect the wild horses, an indigenous species (by the way, their fossil remains are under my feet in Florida and can be plucked easily from our rivers and streams), burros (to honor them with our thanks), but our elected officials have prostituted themselves and now our herds are subject to horrible spaying procedures without anesthesia or sterile fields, and castrated. In holding pens I heard today we have 50K wild horses and burros awaiting adoption which is almost impossible. In the Appropriations Bill our elected officials will approve under the Stewart Act (Thank Rep. Chris Stewart of Utah), the slaughter of these animals in holding pens, over the age of 10. Burros live into their 40s. I had one. She was taken from the floor of the AZ desert when a foal, and I got her when she was 4.
We must stop this heinous, brutal disregard for living sentient beings. We must return, physically intact, all wild horses and burros to their native lands. You will hear from Zinke and his cadre of death, that they damage the earth. No. They don’t. Those who know them can tell you that they tread daintily on the land, reseeding their home ranges with native plants and fertilizing them with their manure. Burros are notorious for finding water by digging, though they hate their feet wet, and have created waterholes for themselves, the horses, and other wildlife. What you have been hearing from the US Government (not the people who know) is lies.
I hope you will copy this and send it to all of your elected officials. There should never be a mere whisper of the slaughter of these animals in the USA. We fought for their protection, we got wolves back into Yellowstone, we cannot afford all that work to be undone. It is not humane. The beef the welfare ranchers produce in endless, detrimental herds, is mainly shipped to China and abroad. Our wild horses are sent to the slaughterhouses in Canada and meet their uber-brutal deaths in Mexico, where sometimes they are skinned alive.
This is what makes the people of BLM salivate as their pockets are filled with money.
Our domestic equines – from racehorses to your old mini-horse you thought went to a good home are sold to kill buyers at auctions in a pipeline to Mexico – for pennies on the pound, where they are brutally slaughtered.
Please, act on this campaign to stop the slaughter. America was not about this 50 years ago. We wanted to make it whole again. We stopped the 1080 poisoned collars. We must stop this.
The midterm elections are coming. Vote your conscience. But let them know you will – it’s not a party thing. It a moral and ethical war we are waging – politicians who don’t care versus Americans who are willing to fight them for the right thing to do, which is protect every living thing in the American wilderness.
Please share this.
Thank you.
Thank you very much
We can contact the Alaska Regional Director to voice our outrage:
Donald Striker, Acting Regional Director,
Alaska Regional Office, 240 West 5th Ave.,
Anchorage, AK 99501. Phone (907) 644-3510.
Email: AKR_Regulations@nps.gov.
Can anyone explain what trophy hunting, and, paraphrasing here, a sick fringe group of what, subsistence hunters? who use disgusting methods… have in common?? Are trophy bears hibernating with their wives and kids? Is it supposed to be kinder, since you want to kill their trophy parents, to off the wolfe or coyote pups in the trap that their home has become? Or is it a matter of culling, and making it easy for bounty hunters and sick creeps to kill more effectively? Is there even a season for such atrocities? I feel this article to be thin on info and a bit unclear.
Sincerely,
Sad and Curious in California
Linda Goldman, it is not necessarily Trump, you know. Like the article says, it is his administration. I’m sure that tries hard to catch everything all at once, but I think that is humanly impossible. Be certain that before he signs anything, that will be the time that he will read a bill and veto whichever doesn’t go with his agenda and killing animals isn’t in his agenda from what I’ve read.
Of course don’t blame your dear leader Trump, just his minions in the cabinet positions that he appointed these Cretans to run. This is his agenda. Let’s be clear it is the Republican agenda.
Trump has no regard for living things! He’s shrinking our parks, allowing trophy hunted wildlife back in the country and cares only about one animal- himself. If you think he or his cabinet care about wildlife, animals, or even you you are greatly ill-informed.
Kem,
Firstly, Trump is systematically overturning anything Obama signed into law, including this one.
Secondly, guided hunting is big business and this proposal is consistent with Trump’s anti-regulation, pro-business agenda. Interior Secretary Ryan Zenke is his minion who is all to happy to carry it out.
Thirdly, Trump’s sons are “big game hunters” and may have a role in influencing this decision. Sadly, this man has no relationship, no connection to the natural world. Everything, to him, boils down to dollars.
This message is to the Humane Society. Why is there not a petition for us to sign? When you run an article like this, your should at least give us somewhere to start to do something!
Hi Sheila, the comment form will become available today and we will post a link. Stay tuned.
I was wondering the same thing. However, we keep signing petitions and never hear of any positive action taken to help these precious animals. This craziness must be stopped
There is…look on Change.org. I have been circulating one on twitter since yesterday.
The comment form linked here actually goes to the official site, where proposed changes are subject to a 60-day public comment period. However, they don’t make it very public…they don’t want a public outcry, so spread the word!
This is more helpful than a petition on another site, because they have to review these, as the comments on that page are part of official records. Unfortunately, you can get hundreds of thousands of signatures on a petition, and they can ignore it. The Obama administration introduced a threshold for WH comment, but it isn’t official, so the new administration can ignore those efforts completely, or do so partially.
So PLEASE share and comment on the official page.
Hi Linda.
Please google, stop Donald Trump from killing wildlife.
I got the: Animal Petitions and there are some petitions there to sign there.
I hope this helps.
Ryan Zinke does not give a hoot about what any of us thinks. The comments period is a joke. 95% of the almost one million public comments were opposed shrinking Bear’s Ears, and he immediately recommended that it be decimated. The only thing that will stop him is endless lawsuits to postpone all of his ideas until he is swept out of office along with Trump. Donate whatever you can afford to environmental justice organizations that will sue, sue, and sue some more.
Where is the link?
Hi Bliss, the form where you can comment will become available today and we’ll post the link once it is. Stay tuned.
Here the comment I submitted:
This rationale for this proposed rule change is that it will make national policy in line with Alaska’s policies. But the directives of the Congress that the National Park Service, is that they must conserve and protect wildlife in national preserves. These are national preserves, that do not take their directions from the state of Alaska. They must take their direction from these two national agencies which are directed by the American people. These proposed rule changes are not only in humane, but are unlawful.
I don’t blame Trump, and was glad when he helped save the elephants, but this other guy, ugh. They say it’s a sport but what sport is so cowardly, lazy, and pathetic as to allow such low tactics?! There’s no skill in this! It is a display of the kind of stupid, shallow, self-important cruelty only humans know. Besides all that, killers often learn to kill animals first, all this unnecessary bloodshed of innocents could easily be to blame for much of the shootings and things going on now.
FYI. The comment line does not open on phones. It did on my computer, but no one has been able to open on a phone. It just keeps saying “loading”.
No!!!
How can people stop this Trump atrocity? Is there an email address, petition, phone number or anyway for people to stop this dead in it’s tracks?
This makes my heart hurt. All Trump does is reverse all the good in the world, especially if it was put in place by Obama. I am so sad to be living in a world that is constantly moving backwards. God bless the bears and wolves of Alaska.
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To the Department of the Interior and President Trump,
Animal Control and Management is one thing, these inhumane hunting methods are another. Do not revoke these protections for bears and wolves and caribou. If hunters are looking for real sport they can find it without engaging in such slaughter. Baiting, hunting cubs in dens, this makes hunters poachers. Please leave these protections in place.
Whatever it is that our government /congress /wh can do to save the animals just have a heart & do it plain & simple cause this is madness & ridiculous!
He is a Sociopath.
You rule, Theresa!
Hunting for sport is no sport at all. While it was once part of one’s survival to hunt, these people who hunt for sport have no need for these animals they kill and, often waste their remains and for what? To prove you’re manly? A person who does this is no man at all and is certainly not courageous or impressive. A person who engages in this type of sport also proves nothing. Instead he or she is killing innocent lives in a cruel fashion and then being wasteful by not fully utilizing the remains as true hunters once did. Where is the good nature of this sort of sport? How can this be considered a sport at all? “According to the National Shooting Sports Foundation, thousands of injuries are attributed to hunting in the U.S. every year—and that number only includes incidents involving humans.” (Source: PETA) Why continue such an unnecessary sport that solves nothing and proves nothing?
“I am opposed to the National Park Service’s plan to repeal the 2015 rule, which would be inconsistent with the agency’s statutory conservation mandate, prohibiting killing hibernating bears and their cubs using artificial light, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears to shoot them point blank, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou, and using dogs to hunt black bears. Americans do not support these hunting methods and travel to Alaska to see these wild animals, providing billions of essential dollars to the local economy to do so. Please keep these prohibitions in place
Hi. Where do I send this?
Thank you! I’m quite frustrated that I can’t figure out where to send my comments. I thought there was supposed to be an open comment period. Where is that?
Thank you for for any info.
Well said, the people that voted for this idiot are morons,with low iq’s
I attempted to upload to this comment on the regulations.gov website unsuccessfully. Even tried to submit a help desk comment and that didn’t work. I’m going to call them next to see why this won’t work.
I shared my thoughts, thru resist bot, with both my Senators and asked them to ask Zinke to rescind the proposed rule.
NPS RIN (1024-AE38)
I write today to oppose the proposed NPS rule which would re-instate cruel and appalling hunting practices on Federal lands. The NPS rule, would, among other things, remove existing prohibitions against killing hibernating bears, and their cubs as well as allow the killing of coyote pups and their mothers in their dens. These cruel practices should not exist, they are not fair sporting methods, are opposed in public opinion research conducted in Alaska, and certainly should not be reinstated by rule. Besides the self-evident humanitarian argument, the agency has no authority to override Congressional protections for these federal lands.
See Jimmy Kimmel’s monologue on the proposed rule @jimmykimmel.
An earlier commenter wrote:
I write today to oppose the proposed NPS rule which would re-instate cruel and appalling hunting practices on Federal lands. The NPS rule, would, among other things, remove existing prohibitions against killing hibernating bears, and their cubs as well as allow the killing of coyote pups and their mothers in their dens. These cruel practices should not exist, they are not fair sporting methods, are opposed in public opinion research conducted in Alaska, and certainly should not be reinstated by rule. Besides the self-evident humanitarian argument, the agency has no authority to override Congressional protections for these federal lands.
I can’t add to this other than these proposals are inexcusable, horrific and must be stopped. These marvelous sentient beings deserve human protection.
Unfortunately many people are somewhat low-information on this subject.
What many people do not know is that these tactics have always been legal and always used in AK. The tactics were invented by the indigenous peoples 1000’s of years ago and as such they have been used in the state for, literally, 1000’s of years.
And Obama’s ban of the tactics on Fed land did not apply to the indigenous people. iow, indigenous/subsistence hunters have legally and happily continued to use these “extreme” tactics on Fed land despite the ban.
What the Trump admin is doing now is re-aligning the Fed laws with the decades-old State laws; those same State laws that the Fed laws were aligned with for decades previous to Obama’s ban.
So, if people really think these tactics really are inhumane, where is the outrage at the state of AK who allows the tactics?
Where is the outrage at the native Alaskans/subsistence hunters who consider it their given right to employ such tactics?
Ethical hunters don’t kill sleeping animals, undeveloped young, or those animals at a disadvantage, such as swimming Caribou. Adult wolves in unchecked populations do pose a serious risk to livestock. I’ve also seen many photos of people’s dogs after wolves attacked them, so I do understand the need for some control of the adult wolf population, in some areas. But there is no excuse for execution of young in the den.
His ego wants to undo everything that Obama did and trumps just a nasty person
That is the most ridiculous thing Iv ever heard of. As if those people dont kill enough animals as is. Now they will be taking away the animals chance to escape or fight back. That’s really what they have come to? Killing defenseless animals and babies.. Its a sad world!
I am WAS neither Trump supporter nor hater, but a statement like this can make me hate him for life. I work for an animal control company Critter Getter (www.crittergetter.io). We have a job of stopping animals from intruding human spaces, still, everyone in our group excels in providing a humane animal control service. While our control officers are trying hard to save every animal from human anger, Trump is handling license to kill these lovely creatures?
He is disturbing nature which might not turn out well for him.
Let’s see- I am sickened- these animals do not have a voice, and only have fifteen per cent of their habitat in the wild.
The government should be using zoologists/and or people that are qualified with the minimum of a Master’s degree in the study of animal behavior to decide the best way to deal with animal populations. Hunters are NOT experts. Killing animals triggers them to produce more offspring for survival. People choose where they can live our wildlife does not. People claim they want to live in the wild of Alaska then they need to realize they will be living with wild animals. When I was growing up I visited my grandparents in Pennsylvania. I remember bears coming down from the mountains so we needed to be vigilant. They couldn’t be killed unless they actually entered the one’s house. Seldom did they come during the day. Not once did they bother the horse or cow.
This barbaric practice should not be reinstated. Cubs/pups die being left without mom’s that are killed.
It’s inhumane.
Targeting cubs with mothers, baiting, and other extreme hunting measures promoted by this resolution have no place on our public lands. How sad the there’s people out there that use this as a form of entertainment. It’s cruel, disgusting and inhumane.
I am opposed to the National Park Service’s plan to repeal the 2015 rule, which would be inconsistent with the agency’s statutory conservation mandate, prohibiting killing hibernating bears and their cubs using artificial light, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears to shoot them point blank, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou, and using dogs to hunt black bears. Americans do not support these hunting methods and travel to Alaska to see these wild animals, providing billions of essential dollars to the local economy to do so. Please keep these prohibitions in place
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I voted for President Trump and supported him financially, but he will have to change his direction on this topic to get my support in the future. I like Trump, but I’m an animal rights lover first. The existence of these animals solely depends on us.
WHY DOESN’T TRUMP POST REASONS FOR FOR THESE DECISIONS TO POACH WILDLIFE IN ALASKA.. WHAT RESON COULD POSSIBLY JUSTIFY THIS MOVE????? THEY HAVE TO BE COMPLETE IDIOTS KNOWING THEY WILL INFURIATE MOST OF THE PUBLIC. IT DOESN’T TAKE A MALE GUTS TO KILL DEFENSELESS ANIMALS. IF THEY WANT TO SHOW THAT THEY HAVE GUTS AND BE A MAN THEY SHOULD GO TO AFGHANISTAN AND HUNT THE TALIBAN. I WAS IN VIET NAM AND KILLED THE ENEMY WHICH I VOLUNTEERED FOR BUT I WOULD NEVER KILL AN ANIMAL UNLESS IT MENT MY SURVIVAL OR FOR FARMERS LIVESTOCK. TRUMP SHOULD BE IMPEACHED!!! THIS LATEST DECISION IS THE ICING ON THE CAKE.
Let’s get something clear here: The Head of the US Fish and Wildlife Service is an avid hunter and socializes with members of elite trophy hunting groups who are calculating in sharing their own agendas with him to influence killing in the name of conservation. Trump’s sons are hunters in the elitist Boone and Crocket hunting organization and have used influencers from this group to also influence Zinke. This is about rich trophy hunters getting another head for their wall or another bear rug they will forget about downstairs.
That sounds to me like the Head of US Fish and Wildlife is feathering his own nest, and putting his thumb on the scale. He should be removed from office. He is supposed to protect our wild places, and our wildlife. There appears to be a conflict of interest with this man. The best thing to do is pull Trump out – impeach – and then go after the head of Fish and Wildlife. Any thoughts?
I am opposed to the National Park Service’s plan to repeal the 2015 rule, which would be inconsistent with the agency’s statutory conservation mandate, prohibiting killing hibernating bears and their cubs using artificial light, shooting wolf and coyote pups and mothers in their dens, using bait to attract brown and black bears to shoot them point blank, shooting vulnerable swimming caribou, and using dogs to hunt black bears. Americans do not support these hunting methods and travel to Alaska to see these wild animals, providing billions of essential dollars to the local economy to do so. Please keep these prohibitions in place. It’s some seriously illegal bullshit to revoke the laws and you know it!! These animals are not trophies and they aren’t a threat to anyone simply by being alive. Get a grip a do the right thing!!
Trump you are fired!
What is the man thinking of? I have American friends who hunt alligators and deer but only for food.. Any other killings are just evil.