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Analysis: What message is being sent by allowing den hunting, baiting on Alaska NPres lands?

Writer: Dave Harmon, PW editorDave Harmon, PW editor

When wolf hunting season opened in Alaska on August 1, it became legal in many national preserves for hunters to kill nursing mothers in dens with their pups. In October, when black bear hunting season begins, females settling down for hibernation with cubs can be targeted in portions of Denali National Preserve and Gates of the Arctic National Preserve. And in spring, when cubs and their mothers emerge, they too will be legal game.


Other previously banned hunting practices—including baiting bears with doughnuts, popcorn, or other human food—also are allowed now in Alaska’s national preserves.


https://www.nationalgeographic.com/animals/2020/08/new-hunting-rules-alaska-national-preserves/

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