Posted by Jacob Resneck, CoastAlaska | Nov 6, 2020
An undated photo of an Alexander Archipelago wolf in Southeast Alaska. (Courtesy photo by Robin Silver/Center for Biological Diversity)
Federal and state wildlife managers announced on Friday they would extend the wolf harvest on Prince of Wales Island. That’s following a contentious hearing in which island resident hunters said too many wolves were preying on deer.
This comes as conservationists have filed a lawsuit to stop the controversial harvest following an unprecedented number of wolves legally killed last season.
Tongass National Forest Supervisor Earl Stewart opened an October 29 telephone hearing with about 100 people on the line.
“It’s really important that we hear from rural users on the importance of wolf to gay management unit to and to those users that rely on that resource,” Stewart said.
He got an earful. One by one resident hunters and trappers told…
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