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Alaska Wildlife News for May 2022
Arctic Tern: The Bird that Flies around the World
Spring 2022 Beluga Monitoring Season Comes to a Close
AWA's Executive Director Wins Award
Our own Executive Director, Nicole Schmitt (center), was recently an Alaska Top Forty Under 40 winner for 2022 through the Alaska Journal of Commerce. Congrats, Nicole!
Killer Whale: The Wolf of the Sea
In the News: Homer’s First Marine Mammal Forum
“Brought together by the Alaska Wildlife Alliance, with the support of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and Kenai Peninsula College, the three-day forum held April 18-21, the culmination of a long-term conversation about educating boaters on how to ethically enjoy seeing the marine life of Kachemak Bay.”
Pacific Halibut: What Makes Alaska the Halibut Capitol of the World
VICTORY! Court upholds prohibition of brown bear baiting in the Kenai Refuge
Alaska Wildlife Alliance and our coalition partners celebrated a U.S. Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision today that upheld a 2016 U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service rule that enshrines the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge’s long-standing prohibition on brown bear baiting, along with its decades-long approach of managing the Skilak Wildlife Recreation Area for wildlife viewing and education.
We're in Alaska’s Superior Court to protect Alexander Archipelago wolves
In the News: OPINION: Alaska has changed. It’s time for trapping regulations to change too.
“When it comes to types of trapping that clearly infringe on the ability of other groups to safely use outdoor public spaces, decisions should be made in a collaborative process that involves representation from a more diverse range of affected groups. Parents of young children, skiers, hunters, hikers, search and rescue volunteers, mushers and others deserve to have a seat at this table.”
There are no trapping regulations in the state of Alaska- it’s time for the Alaska Board of Game to make the change. Read on to learn more about this issue.
Meadow Vole: Scurrying its Way Across Alaska!
In the News: Alaska’s Board of Game again behaves outrageously—and disrespectfully
“The BOG received almost 500 written comments in support of setbacks and only 36 comments against them, and still these handful of trails were rejected. We ‘compromised’ at a 95%-5% split (losing 95% of the initial request) and, with almost no discussion, they brushed that aside. The vote signaled to me that the Board of Game is not interested in public participation, nor is it interested in carrying out the agreements of a stakeholder group they themselves developed and organized. If they don’t listen to literally hundreds of commenters who don’t meet their worldview, or the stakeholders they called together to negotiate, who do they listen to?”
Read on to learn more about AWA’s failed Proposal 199 that requested 50-yard trap setbacks from select multi-use trails in the Matanuska-Susitna region.
In the News: Belugas are back: Spring monitoring kicks off on the Kenai
Humpback Whale: The Whale with a Song
Approaches to Adapting to Alaska's Rapidly Warming Climate workshop videos are live!
In the News: Feds urged to save beluga whales in Alaska
Read more to learn about Alaska Wildlife Alliance’s involvement in assisting to file a legal petition to induce the National Marine Fisheries Service to explore whether allowing a certain number of incidental deaths of critically endangered Cook Inlet beluga whales in connection to oil and gas development in the region should be tolerated.
