Trump administration to make it easier for hunters to kill bear cubs and wolf pups in Alaska — A ban against luring mothers from their dens with doughnuts and other treats will be lifted

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.

In a final rule that is expected to be published Tuesday 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.

State officials primarily composed of hunters in Alaska argued that the October 2015 regulations ordered by the Obama administration infringed on traditional native hunting practices and were more restrictive than what is allowed on state land.

Ah yes, the grand Native hunting traditions of using donuts to lure out hibernating bears so them and their cubs can be killed, using headlamps to sneak into wolf dens to slaughter them and their pups, and shooting caribou from boats, airplanes, helicopters and snowmobiles. I remember reading about those in my history class. /s