Category: Wolf Poaching

On the Threshold of Extinction. Alexander Archipelago Wolves 2021-2022 Update

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Alaska constitutional authority requires the state to manage ALL wildlife using long-term sustained yield principles. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) has shown time and again that this policy is reserved for ungulate species. This sort of mismanagement, killing high numbers of predator species to boost ungulate populations, can be seen in virtually … Continue reading On the Threshold of Extinction. Alexander Archipelago Wolves 2021-2022 Update

Alexander Archipelago Wolves on Prince of Wales 2020-2021 Season Update

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October 29, 2020, updated November 9, 2020, and again January 21, 2021: Alaska wildlife officials have reported that 68 wolves were taken by trappers during the recent shortened 21 day season, that opened on November 15 2020, on or near Prince of Wales Island. A reported kill of 68 wolves from an already decimated population … Continue reading Alexander Archipelago Wolves on Prince of Wales 2020-2021 Season Update

PETERSON, BISHOP INTRODUCE BILL TO DELIST GRAY WOLVES IN LOWER 48 STATES

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February 28, 2020 Press Release WASHINGTON– Representatives Collin C. Peterson, D-Minn. and Rob Bishop, R-Utah, today introduced H.R.6035 - to require the Secretary of the Interior to issue a final rule relating to the delisting of the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act of 1973. The American Wild Game and Livestock Protection Act, would … Continue reading PETERSON, BISHOP INTRODUCE BILL TO DELIST GRAY WOLVES IN LOWER 48 STATES

Tweetsheet: Save the Roadless Rule⁠—Alaska

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Once again, the Forest Service has disregarded the evidence of the probable impacts of its timber program on wolves, other wildlife populations, salmon, and critical habitat necessary for their survival.
As we have seen on Prince of Wales, logging and roads initiate many harmful effects, including the “overharvest” and illegal take of not only wolves, but also their primary prey and sustenance, Sitka black-tailed deer.