{"id":17649,"date":"2016-08-23T08:00:33","date_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/fairbanks-to-take-sides-on-wolf-hunting\/"},"modified":"2016-08-23T08:00:33","modified_gmt":"2016-08-23T15:00:33","slug":"fairbanks-to-take-sides-on-wolf-hunting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/fairbanks-to-take-sides-on-wolf-hunting\/","title":{"rendered":"Fairbanks to take sides on wolf hunting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>FAIRBANKS \u2014<\/strong> Fairbanks officials plan to weigh in on a statewide dispute about wolf hunting rules near Denali National Park.<\/p>\n<p>A resolution from Fairbanks North Star Borough Assemblyman Van Lawrence urges Gov. Bill Walker to halt wolf hunting and trapping near a boundary on the park\u2019s northeast side. The Assembly will consider the resolution Thursday, but it cannot directly change the rules, the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reported.<\/p>\n<p>The yearslong debate over hunting comes as the park\u2019s wolf population has been on the decline. But the predators have healthy numbers in the state and are not a threatened species, the newspaper reported.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s not clear how the assembly will vote on the issue, but Assemblyman Lance Roberts said decisions on game management should be left up to the state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s the borough\u2019s place to get into game management,\u201d Roberts said. \u201cThere\u2019s a whole process that\u2019s developed over decades that\u2019s helped grow the availability of wildlife out there, and I think we should leave well enough alone.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Wolf advocates are calling on the Alaska Board of Game to reinstate a no-hunting buffer zone along the Stampede Road corridor, which cuts into the park.<\/p>\n<p>In 2000, the state instituted a buffer zone to prevent wolf hunting close to the boundary, but the game board repealed it nearly a decade later.<\/p>\n<p>A recent proposal from the National Park Service would compromise by implementing a buffer zone only during certain times of the year, with the goal of protecting wolves during the breeding season.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal asks the game board to close wolf hunting in the Stampede Road corridor from Feb. 1 to July 31 and to close wolf trapping from Feb. 1 to Oct. 31. The board is scheduled to consider the proposal at a February meeting in Fairbanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FAIRBANKS \u2014 Fairbanks officials plan to weigh in on a statewide dispute about wolf hunting rules near Denali National Park. A resolution from Fairbanks North Star Borough Assemblyman Van Lawrence urges Gov. Bill Walker to halt wolf hunting and trapping near a boundary on the park\u2019s northeast side. The Assembly will consider the resolution Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":17650,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_stopmodifiedupdate":false,"_modified_date":"","wds_primary_category":4,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[230],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17649","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17649"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17649\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17649"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}