Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Taking the "Sport" Out Of Sportsman

Ran across the following blurb on the Washington Post the other day, and it just made me more than a little angry.

I have a lot of friends and family who hunt and fish. They are sportsman in the true sense of the word, and respect their sport. But I think they will cringe when they see this...as well they should. I just wonder what the logic of this is.

This is the blurb:

The Trump administration is making it easier for hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in Alaska. 

“Hunters will soon be allowed to venture into national parks in Alaska and engage in practices that conservation groups say are reprehensible: baiting hibernating bears from their dens with doughnuts to kill them and using artificial light such as headlamps to scurry into wolf dens to slaughter mothers and their pups,” Darryl Fears reports. “In a final rule that is expected to be published Tuesday (6/9/2020) in the Federal Register, the Trump administration will end a five-year-old ban on the practices, which also include shooting swimming caribou from a boat and targeting animals from airplanes and snowmobiles. It would take effect 30 days after being published.”

 


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