Alaska’s Kenai National Wildlife Refuge has weathered many storms in the last 80 years. Its 2 million acres of forests and wetlands southeast of Anchorage are regularly wracked by natural cataclysms such as fires that can dwarf Lower 48 events. Our organizations have fought for years to protect this amazing refuge and its wildlife populations, but now a human-made disaster is in the works.

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS), the federal agency responsible for overseeing these lands, has ignored its science and caved to D.C. political appointees and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADFG). A proposed regulation will completely alter the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge Hunting and trapping framework…