I write this from the perspective of a person who was raised in a huntin' and fishin' family in Eastern PA. Personally, I do not hunt. While I strongly support strengthening our gun laws, I am, however, not anti-gun or anti-hunting. More on this later. Meanwhile...
The wildlife "management" practices in AK (Savage Sarah at the helm) are a disgrace, based on junk science, and were dishonestly developed. Predator kill quotas/bounties, according to the (pro-kill stacked) Fish & Game board, have been increased "to re-allocate the harvestable surplus of game animals from predators to humans." More specifically, sport hunters.
Subsistence calculations showed that needs could be met with a moose population of approximately 3,000. These reports demonstrated there was no need to consider or begin predator control. Though these results were published in a State Fish and Game Memorandum; dated Nov. 2, 2001 followed by a Press Release dated Nov. 6th, they were later buried and ignored.
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