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posted by martyb on Friday March 24 2017, @08:23AM   Printer-friendly
from the Oh-shoot! dept.

Start the chopper, it's time to become the top predator again:

By a largely party-line vote Tuesday, the Senate approved a bill that repeals Obama-era hunting restrictions on national wildlife refuges in Alaska. The House already voted last month to abolish those restrictions — which were instituted by the Fish and Wildlife Service [FWS] in 2016 to protect predator species from hunters — and so the bill now heads to the desk of President Trump, who is widely expected to sign it.

The FWS rule facing repeal explicitly prohibited many kinds of "predator control" on the 16 federally owned refuges in Alaska. That prohibition included a ban on the aerial hunting, live trapping or baiting of predators such as bears and wolves — as well as on killing those predators while near their dens or their cubs.

Alaska Rep. Don Young, the Republican sponsor of the bill passed Tuesday, says these restrictions represented federal overreach. "Not only does this action undermine Alaska's ability to manage fish and wildlife upon refuge lands," Young said, "it fundamentally destroys a cooperative relationship between Alaska and the federal government."


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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @06:33PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @06:33PM (#483781)

    Now we can finally actually repeal Obamacare, and replace it with shipping sick people to Alaskan wildlife refuges, where they can take over, stand up to the Feds, assert their Freedumbs, and be shot from the air like a wolf or a bear. I knew the Republicans had an answer for everything!

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  • (Score: 0, Offtopic) by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @08:14PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Friday March 24 2017, @08:14PM (#483844)

    This comment was just awful. Why did you spend time writing and posting it?