(Anchorage) — Hunting seasons are in full swing and many Alaskans are returning from days afield with moose, caribou, Dall sheep and other game ready for processing and storage in the freezer. Along the way, one problem successful hunters must consider is how to properly dispose of meat scraps, bones and hides. Proper disposal isn’t […]
(Juneau) — Waterfowl hunting season opens September 1 over much of Alaska and several regulations changes—including increases to daily bag limits for canvasbacks, snow geese, and brant—spell good news for duck and goose hunters this fall: Beginning September 1, canvasback limits statewide will increase from one to two birds per day, six in possession. The […]
(ANCHORAGE, Alaska) – Last week Alaska Wildlife Troopers closed out an investigation into the illegal killing of three Dall Sheep from a drainage 20 miles back on the East Fork of Kings River. The case closed with a guilty plea to five counts from James Randall Wyatt, 58 of Palmer. Upon pleading guilty to Wanton […]
Visitors to national parks are half as likely to see wolves in their natural habitat when wolf hunting is permitted just outside park boundaries. That’s the main finding of a paper co-authored by the University of Washington appearing April 28 in the journal PLOS ONE. Its authors examined wolf harvest and sightings data from two […]