ByRick Steiner

Updated: 23 hours agoPublished: 1 day ago

https://www.adn.com/opinions/2023/06/15/opinion-alaskas-recent-brown-bear-massacre-is-an-historic-disgrace/

The state of Alaska’skillingof 94 brown bears (including cubs), five black bears and five wolves last month in Southwest Alaska, shooting them from helicopters, is a historic national and global disgrace. This certainly must be one of, if not the, largest kill of predators by state agents in such a short time in state history — another black eye for Alaska around the world. There will almost certainly be backlash for Alaska. There should be. Alaska’s lethal predator control (Intensive Management) program, as currently practiced, is widely regarded as unscientific, unnecessary, ineffective, costly, unethical, inhumane, and controversial.

It is difficult to buy the state’s argument that such a slaughter was…