Alaska withholds Prince of Wales wolf population estimate from subsistence council
From KRBD.org in Ketchikan, Alaska:
An estimate of Prince of Wales Island’s wolf population is complete and in the hands of state and federal wildlife managers. But officials refused this week to share their numbers with a regional council tasked with advising subsistence hunting and trapping on federal land. This comes as a petition is pending to list Southeast’s wolves as a threatened species.
There will be an open season for wolves on Prince of Wales Island, state officials said.
That was the message delivered to the Southeast Alaska Subsistence Regional Advisory Council, which is tasked with making key decisions on hunting and trapping on federal land and has a record in supporting the state’s wolf management.
