Special Note: Last year Congress introduced S.J. Res 18 giving non-subsistence hunters in Alaska’s national parks the right to hunt wolf pups at their den site and to spot bears and their cubs from helicopters in order to shoot them upon landing. The House passed it on 2-16-17 and the Senate on 3-21-17, both without amendment. This bill is unethical and immoral, besides advocating poor sportsmanship. What happened to “Fair Chase”? If you wish to contact President Trump before he signs this into law, here’s how Tweet Donald Trump or E-mail Donald Trump.
See also Defenders of Wildlife fact sheet
This is what I wrote to President Trump:
Last year Congress introduced S.J. Res 18 giving non-subsistence hunters in Alaska’s national parks the right to hunt wolf pups at their den site and to spot bears and their cubs from helicopters in order to shoot them upon landing. The House passed it on 2-16-17 without amendment and the Senate passed it 3-21-17. This bill is unethical and immoral, besides advocating poor sportsmanship. What happened to the “Fair Chase”? It’s laws like this that make animal lovers hate animal hunters.
Hunting ethically, morally and with good sportsmanship will allow us to maintain the hunting tradition in America. Increasing tourism at the expense of staining a proud hunting tradition is cowardly. Please do not sign S.J. Res 18 into law.
I want to keep my hunting privileges and so do all the members of my family. We don’t need to give hunting haters more fuel to prevent us from this family tradition. Please veto S.J. Res 18.
I have been a hunter since I was nine years of age, I’m knocking on 62 in May. This legislation serves no useful purpose. If there is an over-population, there are other ways to handle our beloved wildlife. The feds shouldn’t even be involved, the State should handle such issues, people that are in the trenches of their own region, and see what’s going on first-hand. Not some bunch of politicians making arm chair decisions. The State of Alaska seems to have failed for the Feds to take precedence here, that, or the greed of money once more takes precedence,.. sad.
Hi! Frank — I understand from my research that this federal resolution now parallels the Alaska law. Unfortunately, Alaska is trying to increase the elk and moose population by reducing predators to attract more tourist-hunters. I don’t believe this unsportsmen-like conduct has anything to do with overpopulation of the named predators. Apparently the lesson learned from the mid-1920s experiment at the Kaibab Plateau of Arizona is being ignored or forgotten: it’s important to keep the wildlife population in balance with the environment’s carrying capacity.