Trump administration moves to reopen Alaska national preserves to bear baiting by sport hunters
The rule restores a hunting method banned by the Biden administration and affects millions of acres of Alaska wilderness, officials said.
- On Friday, October 16, the Trump administration released a final rule allowing sport hunters to bait bears with doughnuts soaked in bacon grease in Alaska national preserves, reviving a hunting method the Biden administration banned in 2024.
- Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stated the regulation restores a framework respecting Alaska's role in managing wildlife under the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act, overturning bans enacted by the Obama and Biden administrations.
- Conservationists cited a survey of 28 wildlife biologists where 26 "thought baiting would lead to bears associating food with humans," while supporters maintain the practice is a controlled hunting method regulated by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
- Jim Adams, Alaska regional director for the National Parks Conservation Association, called the rule "outrageous," while Cooper Freeman, Alaska director at the Center for Biological Diversity, labeled it "disgraceful" and contrary to wildlife conservation.
- The rule is scheduled for publication in the Federal Register on Monday and takes effect 30 days after, arriving 18 days before voters decide Alaska's hotly contested U.S. Senate race between Senator Dan Sullivan and Mary Peltola.
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Conservative Conservation Group Blasts Trump Admin Rule Permitting Bear Baiting
A conservative environmental organization voiced fierce opposition Monday after the Trump administration finalized a rule permitting hunters to use bait, including foods like doughnuts and bacon grease, to attract and kill bears within national preserves across Alaska. The decision, finalized Oct. 19, reverses previous federal restrictions on sport hunting practices within the state’s national preserve […] Conservative Conservation Group Blasts …
The National Park Service is recovering a practice that was banned by the Biden administration and condemned by conservationists
Donald Trump's government announced on Friday the resumption of the use of food baits to attract bears and shoot them at short distance in certain federal public lands of Alaska. The measure allows again the use of food such as bacon fat soaked doughnuts, sweets, meat and fish remains, practice prohibited by the government of Joe Biden in 2024. The new regulations will be published in the Federal Registry on Monday and will enter into force 30 d…
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