Assembly will consider opposing listing Alexander Archipelago wolf as endangered

Communities throughout Southeast have signed a petition to oppose listing the Alexander Archipelago wolf as an endangered species, due largely to the additional restrictions a listing could impose on wolf hunters and the potential risk to the deer population.

Though members of the Wrangell borough assembly expressed widespread support for the petition, they took issue with details in its wording at the Feb. 14 assembly meeting and preferred to draft a statement of their own.

The assembly instructed Borough Manager Jeff Good to prepare a resolution outlining the assembly’s stance against design...

 

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