What troubles me most is the total exclusion of public testimony on implementing the current program.
Caribou cross the Kanektok River in the Togiak National Wildlife Refuge on Aug. 25, 2009. The Mulchatna caribou herd, which ranges in the refuge, has declined sharply since the 1990s, and scientists cite numerous factors. The controversial Mulchatna predator-control campaign was conducted this spring to help boost the herd’s numbers.
I’ve always had a deep love for animals and wild country, and I knew at a young age that I wanted to spend my life studying wildlife and traveling to exotic places to observe them in their natural habitats. I’ve done so over the past 50 years throughout most of Alaska and many countries abroad. My wife and I lived and raised our daughter in Dillingham for several years, where much of our nutrition came from moose, salmon and Mulchatna caribou.
Over the next several years, the caribou population grew to more than 200,000, then began a steady decline in the mid-1990s to a low today around 12,000 — which, under the Intensive Management Act, triggered more aggressive regulatory actions to reduce predators, although predators were simply one of the many identified causes of the decline.
What troubled me most, however, was the total exclusion of public testimony on implementing the current program, designed entirely by the Board of Game as a separate action that was not in any plan or proposal recommended by the department. This violates the right of all Alaskans to voice their opinion and suggest alternative solutions to existing problems, one of the very fundamental reasons the board was created.
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