{"id":27407,"date":"2016-04-28T08:03:10","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spijue.wpengine.com\/news\/federal-officials-end-plans-for-alaska-island-feral-cattle\/"},"modified":"2016-04-28T08:03:10","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T15:03:10","slug":"federal-officials-end-plans-for-alaska-island-feral-cattle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/news\/federal-officials-end-plans-for-alaska-island-feral-cattle\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal officials end plans for Alaska island feral cattle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KODIAK \u2014 Federal wildlife managers say efforts to remove a herd of more than 2,000 feral cattle on Chirikof Island that have long gone without caretakers have stopped due to funding issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge said in a press release Monday that the 2016 federal budget prohibits supporting removal efforts regarding cattle on Chirikof or on Wosnesenski Island south of the Alaska Peninsula.<\/p>\n<p>The Chirikof animals are descendants of cattle first brought to the 29,000-acre island in the late 1880s to provide meat for whaling crews and fox traders.<\/p>\n<p>The refuge has long been trying to remove the non-native herd and was nearing completion of an environmental impact statement to explore different options.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a couple of years in,\u201d refuge manager Steve Delehanty told The Kodiak Daily Mirror.<\/p>\n<p>Delehanty said the refuge acknowledges members of the public who provided \u201cexcellent feedback\u201d regarding the cattle. The refuge had received hundreds of public comments on the issue, he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf authorized in the future, we hope to provide a draft EIS for public review and comment and address these issues,\u201d the release says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KODIAK \u2014 Federal wildlife managers say efforts to remove a herd of more than 2,000 feral cattle on Chirikof Island that have long gone without caretakers have stopped due to funding issues. The Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge said in a press release Monday that the 2016 federal budget prohibits supporting removal efforts regarding cattle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"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-27407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-state-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407","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=27407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27407\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27407"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.juneauempire.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=27407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}