Beluga listings create unity among Alaska's D.C. lawmakers

If there's one thing Alaska's congressional delegation can agree on, it's a distrust of the Endangered Species Act and a belief it could ruin the state's economy.

Whiteout conditions ground hunt for Chignik Lake wolves

Whiteout conditions in Chignik Lake on Friday afternoon grounded authorities searching for the wolves believed to have killed a school teacher earlier in the week.

State seeks to trap or kill wolves blamed in death

Rossi to head state Division of Wildlife Conservation

A relative newcomer to state Division of Wildlife Conservation who several wildlife advocates said is overly sympathetic to hunters at the expense of other groups has been selected to head the state agency at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

Game Board wolf vote questioned

Critics of a controversial Board of Game decision are challenging a key vote that eliminated a wolf protective buffer zone outside Denali National Park and Preserve. They want the tie-breaking vote of the board's newest member tossed because he sells wolf traps and owns a tannery business.

Villagers unnerved by fearless wolves after teacher's death

Residents of Chignik Lake were on patrol Wednesday, hunting for wolves they blame for the death this week of a schoolteacher as she was jogging on an isolated road.

Wolves may have killed village teacher

Groups' goal is to minimize moose/vehicle collisions

Anyone who drives Point MacKenzie Road in winter knows to take it slow. In addition to icy roads, moose pop out from everywhere or sometimes stand placidly beside the road, munching on young willows.

Wolves may have killed village teacher

Authorities were in the Alaska Peninsula village of Chignik Lake on Tuesday investigating whether a 32-year-old schoolteacher, found dead off a road leading out of town, was killed in a wolf attack.

Group calls for tourist boycott over wolf decision

An animal rights group is calling for a tourism boycott of Alaska over a recent decision to remove buffer zones for wolf trapping near Denali National Park.

Marmots, rabbits are targeted on islands

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service will eradicate invasive mammal species on uninhabited islands near Kodiak and Akutan.

Area around Denali opened to wolf hunters

The Alaska Board of Game on Friday approved opening the northeast periphery of the Denali National Park and Preserve for wolf trapping.

Fortymile wolf hunters to use helicopters again

Fortymile wolf hunters to use helicopters again

A helicopter will be used to hunt wolves for the second year in a row in the Fortymile region near Tok as part of a state predator control program.

Alaska bison hunters can use radios, cell phones, Game Board says

Lawmakers tone down effort to overturn polar bear listing

The federal listing of polar bears as a threatened species so outraged Alaska lawmakers, they considered spending more than a million dollars for a public relations effort to reverse the decision.

More polar bear news

Activist seeks expansion of Denali wolf sanctuary

Priscilla Feral spent a full day flying to Fairbanks from Connecticut to speak before the Alaska Board of Game for five minutes on Saturday, even though she doesn't think it will do any good.

Ducks Unlimited wins honor

The Anchorage chapter of the national conservation organization Ducks Unlimited has been honored by the national organization for being among the 100 chapters that raise the most money for the organization.

Grass-roots group aims to expand Denali wolf buffers

A grass-roots organization has gathered hundreds of signatures in support of a proposal to expand wolf buffers next to Denali National Park and Preserve.

Deadline to watch bears at McNeil River is Monday

The deadline to apply for a permit to watch brown bears this summer at the McNeil River State Game Sanctuary is approaching.

Teacher hopes project leaves kids bullish about moose

Forty students stomped through snow with logger's tape and clipboards Tuesday morning, gathering information about forests in the Point MacKenzie area and learning about the kind of habitat it takes to raise moose.

Poll finds Anchorage likes wildlife in city

Anchorage: You like having moose and bears as neighbors -- you just don't want any more of them.

PDF: Anchorage wildlife survey

NOAA gets feedback on plan to protect belugas

Roughly 150 people turned out Friday night to give the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration a piece of their mind about its proposal to designate more than 3,000 square miles of Cook Inlet as critical habitat for beluga whales, making development in those areas subject to restrictions.

Fairbanks fur tanner appointed to state game board

Gov. Sean Parnell has appointed Fairbanks fur tanner Al Barrette to the Alaska Board of Game, ending a one-year hiatus when nobody living north of the Alaska Range was on the seven-person board that regulates hunting and trapping in the state.

Video: Barrette skins a wolf and shares his views on hunting and trapping (Warning: Graphic images)

Whales suspect in struggles of Prince William Sound herring

Something is holding down the herring population of Prince William Sound, and marine scientists are tailing some rather large suspects: humpback whales.