This is becoming an alrming "trend" in Alaska that a lot of 
people are not aware of in other parts of the world:

LATEST NEWS
ANCHORAGE, AK, March 17, 2004
EXTREME BEAR CONTROL LEGISLATION
Senator Seekins' bill SB 297 treats bears as vermin.  This bill 
allows just about every imaginable way to butcher them.  Hunters 
will be allowed to shoot sows with cubs as well as kill cubs on 
their own that are only one year old.  People wishing to kill bears 
will be permitted to go after them with aircraft, snowmachines, 
four-wheelers, cars, trucks, airboats, indeed any motorized 
vehicle that can give them access to bears.  Hunters will be 
permitted to train bears to come to artificially created food 
dumps so they can be shot.  All manner of electronic means to 
coordinate hunts or otherwise improve the chances of killing 
bears will be made legal.  Both brown bears and black bears will 
be subject to the same abuse.  No closed season will exist for 
killing bears.
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