Here are C.A.S.H.’s Comments Re the proposed anti-animal tactics to be undertaken in Alaskan National Monuments:
As a wildlife photographer I’ve spent the better part of a decade in Alaska, photographing bears and wolves in addition to moose, Dall’s sheep and caribou in numerous locations throughout the region. Most of what I saw was in the State’s National Parks—Glacier Bay, Katmai and Denali. One thing that struck me right off was how comparatively little wildlife I came across
in National Monuments such as Wrangle Saint Elias. Clearly, hunting and trapping had taken their toll in the unprotected lands and monuments that, unlike the parks, allowed wildlife “harvesting.”
But even if I wasn’t now president of the group C.A.S.H., the Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting, I’d be sickened, outraged and appalled by the new federal proposals to allow abusive treatment of some of
the world’s most intelligent and charismatic animals who reside in our Alaskan national monuments. Among the shockingly sadistic tactics are such mindless behaviors as murdering bear cubs and wolf pups in their dens, targeting of animals like swimming caribou from boats and using bait to lure animals like bears in for the kill.
The Trump Administration, in their rush to undo any protections wildlife may have been afforded under the Obama Administration, must think they’ll score points with their friends in the NRA or the Safari Club. But their boss doesn’t need anything else to make him look bad at this point in his career—his sons are already doing a bang-up job at that.
Jim Robertson
President, Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting.
Comment on the new rules here: https://www.regulations.gov/searchResults?rpp=25&po=0&s=1024-AE38&fp=true&ns=true
Exposing the Big Game 
Reblogged this on Committee to Abolish Sport Hunting Blog.
It’s hard to even find the words to describe how abhorrent the new hunt rules are. But with the new administration and a Republican Congress, the toxic brew is more concentrated.
Greedy extractors, gun groups and hunters, spineless bureaucrats, and their donation-demanding minions in the legislatures can run now amuck to ravage our wildlife.
Obviously, speciesism is an issue as it always is when animal lives are at stake. If people were as concerned about the murder of baby bears and wolves and of helpless sleeping bears, as well as the animals lured to their death with treats or hunted by mighty nimrods in motorboats as they try to swim across a lake or river as they are about Trump’s border policies,
It’s too easy to hit “send” by mistake.
I was going to suggest that the wildlife policies are at least as harmful in their own way as the border separations of children are. But people don’t care enough about the animals to protest.
Sad but true.
Hunting cubs and pups in their dens goes over the line of decency. Not that I am unsympathetic to human problems, but that really is all that matters to most. We environmentalists and animal rights/welfare advocates only get any leftover ‘crumbs’, and I am very tired of it, always having to wait until the latest human problem is addressed first. And all of the waiting and support given doesn’t seem to have inspired any reciprocity at all.