ANCHORAGE, Alaska - Donald Trump Jr. has been granted the right to hunt a grizzly bear in northwestern Alaska near the Bering Sea town of Nome, a state official said on Friday.
The son of U.S. President Donald Trump was one of three people who applied for 27 spots for non-resident hunters targeting grizzlies in a designated region of northwestern Alaska's Seward Peninsula, said Eddie Grasser, the wildlife conservation director for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. The state conducts periodic drawings for permits to hunt bears, caribou, moose and other animals in various regions. Winners are chosen by a lottery, and there are typically many more applications than hunting tags awarded.
"We get thousands of applications," Grasser said. Whether anyone wins, he said, comes down to"pure chance, luck of the draw."But in the case of the bear-hunt permit that the president's son won, there was little competition. Twenty-four tags for hunting bears in that region went unclaimed, Grasser said.To follow through with the Nome-area bear hunt, Trump must pay a $1,000 non-resident tag fee and buy a $160 non-resident hunting license, Grasser said.
The president's eldest son is an avid hunter and has made several trips to hunt in Alaska and Canada.The Safari Club this month raffled off a $150,000 seven-day"dream hunt" expedition with Trump Jr. The raffle winner got the right to accompany the president's son on a yacht traveling in November along coastal areas of the Tongass National Forest.
And let the hunter become the hunted
I'm rooting for the grizzly. Little Junior had better look out.
Shameful
He loks like a grizzly wonder if anyone saw a difference shame he cant get a job instead of killing bears why dont he go to China and clean the streets and kill the viruses there no I dont mean the Govt there the filthy market places where they eat dogs and cats
Someone else will kill it. He’ll pay to take a picture with his gun next to it. Poor DonaldJTrumpJr. Daddy wanted a boy and didn’t get one.
Killing wildlife is not appealing to me
In other words: President Trumps son legally got a permit to hunt. The nerve of him!!
Is this an Aspen Dental Center ad?
And by “hunt” you mean realeased in front of him so he can shoot it like a coward
Typical
Why is this news? Nobody reports on it when I get a cougar hunting permit.
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