By

Riley Board, KDLL – Soldotna

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March 23, 2023

In its six days of meetings in Soldotna, the Alaska Board of Game heard hours of public testimony and weighed in on more than 150 proposals to change hunting and wildlife regulations in the state. Members considered nine proposals around the contentious issue of trapping setbacks, which require traps to be placed a certain distance from public-use areas like trails and campgrounds.

Out of those proposals, the board failed seven.

“I am disappointed at the decisions they came to and the lack of support the Board of Game showed,” said Lorraine Temple, who heads the Cooper Landing Safe Trails Committee — the group behind many of the proposals.

The group hastried and failedto get the same proposals passed before at…