As of 3;45 pm USFWS in it's infinate wisdom has listed the Polar Bear as threatened. This ends all hunting and importing by US citizens.

Jeff

This is very bad !!

It's bad for the Innuit who depend on guiding as an industry. It's probably good for Canadian hunters as the price of hunts might come down a bit, enabling us poor Canucks to afford a hunt too.

the chef

..........It is bad because of the way the data was compiled and reported ......
Just another way the environmentalist,s are destroying the economy and ruining great ways of life ........

Funny thing about this global warming BS .. the only place Mastodons are found is where it is now froze all or most of the time ,,,....I wonder how many SUV,s were driving around creating green house gasses that caused them to become extinct ..................

All this will do is enable some bunch of liberals to further enslave Alaskan working people with more hardship and poverty ........While they worship some pos bear ....I would like to put one of them on the ice with no vehicles around and see how their motivated running works out .....

Assholes win again. The devastation to the native people will be terrible as they depend upon the hunter revneue. Of course foreign countries will still be able to hunt and import to there homelands. What next?

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Originally posted by Bwana Bunduki:
This ends all hunting and importing by US citizens.
Jeff

Let me try to get a handle on this. How can the US government stop me from shooting a polar bear in another country where it is legal to do so?

They certainly have grounds to keep me from bringing the carcass into the US, I agree. But what right do they have to stop me hunting a polar bear except in the US?

They don't have the right to stop you from hunting in another country. But I bet not many would bother without the trophy.

the chef

it is certainly your right to hunt the animal if you have the heart to leave this most maginificent of all trophies behind.

Jeff

The polar bear was used as more excuse to prevent oil exploration and development by the greenies. You can't mess with the habitat of "threatened species". We'll all be a lot older before they get this mess corrected.

The comment ...foreign countries will still be able to hunt and import to their homelands...confuses me. If, ALL PB hunting in Alaska is banned, how can ANYONE hunt there?

If, this refers to Canadian hunting of PBs, I would point out that the U.S.A. IS a foreign country and Americans ARE foreign hunters in Canada.

I expect that the next Canadian federal government will also ban PB hunting and probably Muskox hunting as well. The world is changing and so is hunting.

Dewey,

Canada just reviewed the status of Polar Bear and declined to list it. As for your comments, this is a Canadian Forum. US citizens cannot import a Polar Bear. Other countries do wha they will.

Jeff

It is probably just the way the poster phrased his comment, but, it sounded to me as though he was equating Canada with the U.S.A. and considers all other countries, ...foreign....

This would be an error, of course and U.S. citizens here in Canada are treated, under hunting regs., exactly as are persons from other nations, as they should be.

My point was that the NEXT Canadian government will almost certainly enact much more restrictive legislation with respect to PBs, MOs and other rare wildlife species. THIS administration is a "minority government" and will probably not survive the next election, so, things will change to reflect the major demographic changes in Canada...hunting will be among these changes.