Senate lifts ban on predator killing in Alaska refuges

A grizzly checks out visitors in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (Photo by Florian Schulz/Anchorage Museum)The U.S. Senate today voted to overturn an Obama Administration rule that banned certain methods of killing predators on national wildlife refuges in Alaska.
The vote was 52 to 47.
The Obama administration wanted to ban killing bear cubs and wolves in their dens, killing bears over bait and other practices that opponents deem inhumane.
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