Published: March 23rd, 2010 10:00 PM
Last Modified: March 23rd, 2010 10:00 PM
The National Park Service is calling for an emergency closure of all sport wolf hunting and trapping in the Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve. John Quinley with the Park Service said there's been an above-average 40 percent drop in the wolf population over the winter.
The losses include four wolves killed last week by state Fish and Game Department agents. Two of those wolves had been collared for tracking.
The Park Service says subsistence hunting will continue but, depending on how public meetings go, sport hunting could be closed for the rest of the season, which runs through May 31.
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