On January 15, 2016, Jack S. Stewart, Jr., of Adak, pled guilty in Anchorage District Court to three counts of transporting big game hunters in the field without a license. Stewart was charged after an investigation by the Alaska Wildlife Troopers, Wildlife Investigations Unit, into reports of caribou hunters being transported by unlicensed individuals for […]
(Juneau) — The State of Alaska strongly opposes draft regulations published by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that would usurp the state’s authority to manage fish and wildlife in Alaska’s 16 national wildlife refuges. Released Thursday for preliminary public review, the proposed rule would require that fish and wildlife be managed for natural fluctuations, […]
Anchorage, Alaska — Thursday the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) published a proposed rule to clarify that predator control is not allowed on national wildlife refuges in Alaska, unless necessary to meet refuge purposes, federal laws or Service policy, and is consistent with the agency’s conservation mission. The rule was developed in response to […]
COLUMBUS, Ohio – A songbird species that flourishes on the salmon-rich side of dams in the western United States struggles when it tries to nest on the side closed off from the fish and the nutrients they leave behind. But the songbird and the rest of the divided ecosystem rebounds, faster than some experts expected, […]