However, in recent years the Alaska Department of Fish and Game has expanded methods of hunting and trapping to increase ways to kill predators such as wolves and bears and thereby increase numbers of prey species popular with hunters, mainly caribou and moose. Since passage of ANILCA, almost all of Alaska’s hunting regulations have been consistent with the Park Service’s mission and regulations, and therefore have long been adopted in large part in the NPS-managed national preserves.
This includes allowing natural predator-prey relationships and population dynamics to occur. Under the “conservation mandate” of the Organic Act of 1916, the National Park Service manages native wildlife populations to maintain the natural abundance, diversity and distribution of those populations in all park units throughout the country. Under ANILCA, Alaska State hunting regulations generally apply in national preserves except when in conflict with federal regulations. The National Park Service manages 14 park units in Alaska, including some that Congress established as “national preserves.” Sport hunting in the national preserves was authorized under the 1980 Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA). Yet, Secretary David Bernhardt’s Interior Department has pushed the Park Service to revise its 2015 Alaska national preserve hunting regulations that prohibited these despicable hunting practices.
Many people would agree that hunting methods such as killing black bear mothers with cubs in their dens, “harvesting” grizzly bears over bait, “taking” female wolves and coyotes and their pups during denning season, are deeply offensive, particularly on public lands, like the national preserves managed by the National Park Service in Alaska.
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