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ANCHORAGE, Alaska – Thirteen teams today filed a federal lawsuit to repair Obama-era protections for Alaskan national reserves through the National Park Service.
The dress defies a Park Service rule that green lighting devices kill brown bears with bait and with dogs. The rule would also allow hunters to kill bears and wolves, adding cubs and young, in their dens. These predatory activities, legal through Alaska state hunting laws, are designed to artificially inflate prey populations, such as elk and caribou, that hunters will have to kill.
“It is outrageous to target ecologically vital animals such as wolves and bears so that hunters have more elk and caribou to kill,” said Collette Adkins, director of carnivorous conservation at the Center for Biological Diversity. “It’s not just destructive predator practices that are destructive and destructive. “are illegal when carried out on secluded federal public lands to protect biodiversity. I hope the court does things right. “
With the new rule published through the Home Office in June, the Park Service has reversed its long-standing position that Alaska officials cannot enforce hunting regulations on national reserves designed to decimate predators. that the state authorize activities such as killing wolves during the calving season on all Alaska national reservations, adding Denali and Wrangell-St. Elias.
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Today’s lawsuit, filed with the Federal District Court in Anchorage, accuses the Department of the Interior and the National Park Service of violating the National Park Service Organic Act, the Alaska National Interest Conservation Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act.
“Wolves and grizzly bears, like the Alaskan national reserves where they live, are national treasures that deserve protection,” Adkins said.
Law firm Trustees for Alaska filed a complaint on behalf of thirteen clients: Alaska Wildlife Alliance, Alaska Wilderness League, Alaskans for Wildlife, Center for Biological Diversity, Coalition to Protect America’s National Parks, Copper Country Alliance, Defenders of Wildlife, Denali Citizens Conseil, U. S. Animal Protective Society, National Park Conservation Association, North Alaska Environmental Center , Sierra Club and Wilderness Watch.
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