Taking a page out of the grizzly-paranoid Education secretary Betsy DeVos’ mind, Alaska’s Republican Senator Dan Sullivan and Representative Don Young have pushed for a bill that would repeal rules finalized this past summer by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Services. Those rules include:
- Same day airborne hunting of bears, wolves, and wolverines;
- Use of traps, snares, and nets for killing bears;
- Killing of wolves and coyotes from May 1 to August 9;
- Killing of bear cubs or mothers with cubs (except for subsistence hunts where this is traditional); and
- Use of bait to kill brown bears.
Yesterday, Rep. Young was able to get “disapproval” of the rule through the House and next up is the Senate.
Under the CRA, all it takes is a simple majority in both the U.S. House and Senate to 'disapprove' of a new federal rule. If Congress "disapproves" of the rule, and the president signs the resolution, the rule is dead and the federal agencies are not allowed to re-issue the rule or craft a similar rule in the future.
This is on public land, mind you, and is all a part of the Republican movement to take control over those lands in order to privatize them under the guise of doing the bidding of gun-toting Americans everywhere.