I posted more than once during the Cecil media debacle that if American hunters, including whitetail deer, turkey, and hog hunters don't wake up and unify they too will be next.

"Storied Alaska wolf pack beloved for decades has vanished, thanks to hunting

Read it and weep. The onslaught on domestic hunting has begun.

Wake up!!

Also keep in mind this media blitz comes on the heels of USF&W deciding we as a State overdid our predator control and now asserted control on Federal Lands. It's a short step from them sighting this garbage article and halting wolf and bear hunting on "their land".

For what it's worth the article was inaccurate. The new USF&W regulations did not ban predator hunting. What it did was:

"Methods and Means of Take of Wildlife:
• Prohibits the following particularly effective methods and means for non-subsistence take of
predators on refuges in Alaska due to the potential impacts to predator populations and the
environment that are inconsistent with the Service’s mandates to conserve the natural and
biological diversity, biological integrity and environmental health on refuges in Alaska:
o Take of bear cubs or sows with cubs (exception allowed for resident hunters to take
black bear cubs or sows with cubs under customary and traditional use activities at
a den site October 15 – April 30 in specific game management units in accordance
with state regulations).
o Take of brown bears over bait.
o Take of bears using traps or snares.
o Take of wolves or coyotes from May 1 – August 9.
o Take of bears from an aircraft or on the same day as air travel has occurred. (Same
day airborne take of wolves or wolverines is already prohibited under current refuge
regulations.)"

The really big deal in all this aside from a loss of intensive predator management is the NPS and USFWS making a precedent to supersede Alaskan state wildlife management as outlined under ANILCA.

Brett

quote:

Originally posted by BrettAKSCI:
For what it's worth the article was inaccurate. The new USF&W regulations did not ban predator hunting. What it did was:

"Methods and Means of Take of Wildlife:
• Prohibits the following particularly effective methods and means for non-subsistence take of
predators on refuges in Alaska due to the potential impacts to predator populations and the
environment that are inconsistent with the Service’s mandates to conserve the natural and
biological diversity, biological integrity and environmental health on refuges in Alaska:
o Take of bear cubs or sows with cubs (exception allowed for resident hunters to take
black bear cubs or sows with cubs under customary and traditional use activities at
a den site October 15 – April 30 in specific game management units in accordance
with state regulations).
o Take of brown bears over bait.
o Take of bears using traps or snares.
o Take of wolves or coyotes from May 1 – August 9.
o Take of bears from an aircraft or on the same day as air travel has occurred. (Same
day airborne take of wolves or wolverines is already prohibited under current refuge
regulations.)"

The really big deal in all this aside from a loss of intensive predator management is the NPS and USFWS making a precedent to supersede Alaskan state wildlife management as outlined under ANILCA.

Brett

Brett,

The bolded is exactly my point. The Camel's nose is under the tent flap. Now more inaccurate articles by the likes of MSNBC and the biased news outlets, the later uproar on social media about the "extinction" of the wild Alaska wolf ..... step by step......

Then USF&W DOES shut down Wolf and Bear hunting on Fed land.

The present Alaskan administration is not going to fight the feds on it's breach of ANILCA.

Cheers
Jim