Two trappers in Fairbanks, Alaska, caught one of the largest wolves ever encountered in the wild shortly before Christmas. Tyler Freel, a staff writer for Outdoor Life based in Fairbanks ...
In May 2018, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke directed the National Park Service to allow extreme hunting methods in Alaska’s national preserves, such as baiting brown bears, killing black bear mothers ...
unsustainable trapping and hunting and large-scale habitat loss. The population of wolves in the management unit decreased from an estimated mean of 336 animals in 1994 to just 89 animals in 2014.
illegal and legal trapping and hunting, the effects of climate change and loss of genetic diversity and inbreeding. “The precarious position of these wolves is mainly driven by habitat loss and ...
Under HB 176, a single hunting or trapping license would allow unlimited take of wolves ... such as the proliferation of Chronic Wasting Disease in the state. Smith also pointed to Canada and Alaska, ...