From the Anchorage Daily News: As waterfowl wing their way to northern nesting grounds by the thousands, key Alaska Native groups are fighting a new federal requirement that subsistence hunters must buy duck stamps….
Native members of a migratory bird panel, meeting in Anchorage last week, said the law is unfair.
Salmon aren't alone in being snagged during this busy summer fishing season in Alaska. Anglers get the hook, too.
Monica Musgrove, a nurse at Central Peninsula Hospital in Soldotna, said emergency room staff have removed 62 hooks from patients since May - including a few through the eyelids and one from the tip of the nose.
A new bill with 105 sponsors in Congress would for all purposes ban Alaska's "wildlife management" policy of shooting wolves from the air, a policy vocally defended by ex-Gov. Sarah Palin . . . .
Leaving office on July 26, Palin told a Fairbanks crowd that Alaskans must "stick together" in opposing "outside special interest groups. Because you're going to see anti-hunting, anti-Second Amendment circuses from Hollywood. . . .”