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We knew this was coming as soon as the bears were listed as threatened.

Its easy for them to use polar bears in their campaigns and mislead people- they're a beautiful & majestic animal (wrongly portrayed as 'cute/cuddly') that hardly anyone will ever see in the wild. Play some emotional music in a commercial showing them with a sad look on their face, and ask for large donations to stop their demise. Lots of people who know little to nothing about them, or their habitat, open their wallets.

From what I've read, their populations have been on the rise. Want to see their numbers shoot up, open a limited drawn hunt on them. Hunters want large boars, boars eat cubs and will kill sows to get cubs (this is not caused by global warming, and happened back in the days of global cooling too), hunters take large boars, more sows/cubs live, population grows. Brown bears on Kodiak are a prime example of this.

As for the fed's land grab, 60 or 70% of AK is already owned by the feds. A lot of history there, but in the end we can thank Jimmuh Catah for that one.