By Kitty Block and Sara Amundson

October 20, 2020 0Comments

The Department of the Interior has reopened the comment period on a proposed another rule to overturn the prior administration’s rule that barred baiting of brown bears on two million acres of public lands in the state’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge.Photo by Dacia Doroff/iStock.com212SHARES

With aproposal to permit the killing of brown bearsover bait in the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) has “gone rogue.” The USFWS and its parent agency, the Department of the Interior, are way over on the dark side when it comes to the killing of charismatic wildlife by America’s trophy hunters.

A public comment period has reopened on the USFWS proposal to allow trophy hunters to lure Kenai’s brown bears to their deaths with rotting piles of pastries and donuts. This plan also attempts to…