{"id":515,"date":"2017-04-12T15:52:52","date_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=515"},"modified":"2017-04-12T15:52:52","modified_gmt":"2017-04-12T19:52:52","slug":"from-the-web-congress-just-made-it-officially-legal-to-kill-hibernating-bears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/12\/from-the-web-congress-just-made-it-officially-legal-to-kill-hibernating-bears\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Congress Just Made It Officially Legal To Kill Hibernating Bears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-516\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-11.16.29-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1430\" height=\"992\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-11.16.29-AM.png 1430w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-11.16.29-AM-300x208.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-11.16.29-AM-768x533.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-11.16.29-AM-1024x710.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/04\/Screen-Shot-2017-04-10-at-11.16.29-AM-432x300.png 432w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>Hunters in <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/news\/alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">Alaska<\/a> can now <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.snopes.com\/2017\/04\/04\/house-votes-killing-hibernating-bears-alaska\/\" target=\"_blank\">track and kill hibernating bears<\/a> thanks to a U.S. House and Senate resolution rolling back Obama-era regulations against the practice.<\/p>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\">\n<p>President <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/topic\/donald-trump\" target=\"_blank\">Donald Trump<\/a>\u00a0signed the bill<a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.theweathernetwork.com\/news\/articles\/trump-rids-ban-on-hunting-bears-and-wolves-in-alaska-refuges\/81051\" target=\"_blank\"> into law<\/a>\u00a0on Monday, which rolled back Alaska\u2019s ban on killing the vulnerable bears, along with wolf cubs in dens. It also allows for hunters to target the animals from helicopters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text text\">\n<p>The Republican-sponsored legislation impacts 76.8 million acres of federally protected national preserves across Alaska.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/congress-officially-made-it-legal-to-kill-hibernating-bears_us_58e93960e4b05413bfe36c1b\">Learn more<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><em>(via The Huffington Post)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hunters in Alaska can now track and kill hibernating bears thanks to a U.S. House and Senate resolution rolling back Obama-era regulations against the practice. President Donald Trump\u00a0signed the bill into law\u00a0on Monday, which rolled back Alaska\u2019s ban on killing the vulnerable bears, along with wolf cubs in dens. It also allows for hunters to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/04\/12\/from-the-web-congress-just-made-it-officially-legal-to-kill-hibernating-bears\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Congress Just Made It Officially Legal To Kill Hibernating Bears&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-8j","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=515"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":517,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515\/revisions\/517"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}