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Eugene

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Fri Jun 7, 2019, 12:59 AM Jun 2019

Groups seek ban on bear-baiting in Idaho, Wyoming forests

Source: Associated Press

Groups seek ban on bear-baiting in Idaho, Wyoming forests

By KEITH RIDLER
June 6, 2019

BOISE, Idaho (AP) — Hunting black bears by using bait in national forests in Idaho and Wyoming should be banned because hunters have killed federally protected grizzlies that were attracted to the food, conservation groups say in a lawsuit.

Western Watersheds Project, WildEarth Guardians and Wilderness Watch filed the lawsuit Wednesday in U.S. District Court challenging the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

The federal agencies are violating environmental laws by allowing the practice that has resulted in the deaths of at least eight grizzly bears since 1995 in national forests, the groups allege.

The groups also said the bait stations get the bears used to human food.

“Federal agencies are bound by the law to recover threatened grizzlies, and knowingly allowing bear-baiting flagrantly violates that duty,” Lindsay Larris of WildEarth Guardians said in a statement.

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Read more: https://apnews.com/a7b385676a094de8a3a7763939b5cffe

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Groups seek ban on bear-baiting in Idaho, Wyoming forests (Original Post) Eugene Jun 2019 OP
That's not very sporting. procon Jun 2019 #1
I am against all bear hunting Beringia Jun 2019 #2

procon

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1. That's not very sporting.
Fri Jun 7, 2019, 01:11 AM
Jun 2019

My dad went bear hunting a few times. In later years he described his adventures to track down a bear as terrifying, exhausting and deadly.

Hunters should be real hunters and pit their survival skills against the terrain and the wild animal, not sit around on their lazy asses and kill some poor beasties that are hungry.

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