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Exposing the Big Game

The Trump administration just restored Alaska hunting rules that allow killing bear cubs, and using doughnuts, dogs, and bright lights to kill bears

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A brown bear hunts for salmon in a river.
A brown bear hunts for salmon in a river. 
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  • The Trump administration just scrapped an Obama-era ban on a series of hunting practices that limited how hunters killed bears and wolves on Alaskan national preserves.
  • Hunters will soon be able to blind bears with lights, hunt them down with dogs, and bait them with human food like doughnuts.
  • They’ll also be able to kill wolves and coyotes in summer, when mothers wean pups, and it will be legal to shoot caribou from motorboats or while they’re swimming.
  • Some Alaskan politicians have welcomed the rollbacks, but conservationists have called them “amazingly cruel,” The Guardian reported.
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Hunters in Alaska will soon be able to blind brown bears with bright lights and bait them with human food before killing them, after the…

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