Ep. 427: The OG of Archaeology
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The Politics of Polar Bear Population Growth
Lomburg said if polar bears are on the way out how come the population is four or five times as great as it was in the 1960s or 1970s that's what he said. "That is deliberately a disingenuous comment okay and i'm going to tell you why please back in the 60s and and into the very very early 70s there were basically no controls on recreational hunting of polar bears" The marine mammals protection act and the endangered species act banned any commercial hunting of polar bear in the united states by 1972.
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