Posted on 08/30/2014 9:47:46 PM PDT by george76
With the public hearing in Soldotna last night, the public comment period on the proposal to close the Fall 2014 and Spring 2015 Brown Bear hunting season on the Kenai Peninsula comes to an end.
In a release yesterday, the Governor’s office said, “Federal land managers have again proposed limiting Alaskans’ access to a state resource, the proposed closure is not justified by either resource protection concerns or federal policy. I strongly urge the Service to reconsider this action and allow state-authorized hunting to continue on the refuge.”
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The decision to temporarily close the Brown Bear season on the peninsula came one day after the Center for Biological Diversity submitted a petition urging the refuge to enact a permanent ban on the hunting of Brown Bear on the Kenai Peninsula
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game disagrees with their federal counterpart and believes that the proposed closure is not justified by either resource protection concerns or federal policy
(Excerpt) Read more at alaska-native-news.com ...
The Center for Biological Diversity.
The spotted owl people, founded by a guy named Kieran Suckling (no kidding) and his buddy whale saviors.
I can’t say more because it’s Sunday.
Time for a season on enviro-whacko nutters - put them out of our misery.
A good reading of the murdering and marauding group of environmental terrorist can be found in Barry Clausen’s article.
fta... “Federal land managers...
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What a load! They are nothing but desk-riding bureaucrats of the Obama administration that cave in to every liberal nutcase cause.
Federal Land Managers are totally ruled by the environmental wackos.
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