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Controversial Alaska hunting techniques to return as bans reversed

Los Angeles (AFP) – Luring bears with bait including bacon and donuts, using flashlights to blind prey and shooting wolf pups in their dens will become legal across Alaska Thursday under a new federal law rolling back bans introduced under the Obama administration.The highly controversial hunting techniques — which also include using dogs to track bears, and shooting swimming caribou from motor boats — have been fiercely criticized by environmentalists, but long employed by indigenous peoples to subsist.Under then-President Barack Obama the National Park Service (NPS) in 2015 prohibited the …