When you forage for food, you need hunt no further than your corner restaurant. When a sea lion forages for food, it could exhaust its time and energy and leave its young to starve while searching the ocean with little chance of success—if it didn’t know where to look. NOAA Fisheries scientist Mike Sigler at […]
Juneau – Today, the Alaska House of Representatives approved legislation to prohibit wolf hunting and trapping in two areas adjacent to Denali National Park and Preserve. House Bill 105, sponsored by Representative Andy Josephson (D-Anchorage), seeks to ensure healthy wolf populations so that park visitors can see wolves in the wild. “Denali National Park managers […]
ANCHORAGE – The State of Alaska filed a lawsuit Friday challenging the National Park Service’s (“NPS”) and Fish and Wildlife Service’s (“FWS”) regulations attempting to prohibit certain hunting methods on national wildlife refuges and national preserves. Among other consequences, the NPS and FWS rules would impact some of the customary and traditional methods of harvest […]
The search for overdue Palmer hunter ended badly, when his remains were discovered in a Mat-Su Valley creek under his overturned ATV on Monday. At 1:50 pm on Monday afternoon, troopers were informed of an overdue hunter identified as 59-year-old Michael D Anderson. Anderson had departed on a hunting trip near 6.5 of Palmer Fishhook […]