Alaska aerial hunting of bears and wolves sparks protest
A coalition of over 35 conservation organizations and scientists is demanding that U.S. Department of the Interior end financial support for excessive removal of wolves and bears in an attempt to increase populations of “game” and trophy species such as caribou, elk and moose. A rulemaking petition to end that financial support has been at the Department since September 2021 without any apparent action.
The groups are seeking a meeting with Secretary Haaland to urge her endorsement of a new rule forbidding federal funding of state game practices that are inconsistent with the national policy of fostering naturally diverse wildlife populations and healthy predator-prey dynamics. Federal aid constitutes a large portion of the state game budgets, exceeding a billion dollars annually.
“Alaska’s practices directly contradict federal wildlife policy, which is to manage for natural diversity,” declared Wendy Keefover, senior strategist for native carnivore protection for the Humane Society of the United States. “The Biden administration should suspend all further payments of federal funds to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game until its wildlife management complies with federal ecological standards.
The coalition also points to extensive wolf eradication efforts in states such as Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming. However, as evidenced by last month’s helicopter bear shooting spree, the anti-predator “intensive management” program in Alaska is even more extreme.
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