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."
(Score: 3, Touché) by butthurt on Saturday March 25 2017, @12:45AM (1 child)
> No animal is dangerous to mankind.
There are the Anopheles mosquitoes.
In 2015, there were 214 million cases of malaria worldwide resulting in an estimated 438,000 deaths, 90% of which occurred in Africa.
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malaria [wikipedia.org]
(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Saturday March 25 2017, @01:01AM
Touche.
I will, however, point out that we were discussing much larger animals, which people hunt for food, sport, and/or to impress members of the opposite sex.