DENALI NATIONAL PARK AND PRESERVE – Bear baiting, shooting wolves and their pups in dens, and killing swimming caribou from motor boats would be banned in some of Alaska’s federal lands under new proposed rules from the National Park Service.
If finalized, the rules would overturn policies that allowed the practices, which also include allowing hunters to use spotlights to kill hibernating bears and their cubs in their dens. Environmentalists and conservations called the hunting tactics inhumane.
“This proposal would lower the risk that bears will associate food at bait stations with humans and become conditioned to eating human-produced foods, thereby creating a public safety concern,” the National Park Service said in a statement.
The NPS is accepting public comments on the new plan until March 10th.
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