A study found killing thousands of wolves and bears didn't make for better moose hunting in a popular Southcentral Alaska game unit over nearly 40 years — findings that the study's authors say raise questions about the state’s predator control practices.
A new study found killing thousands of wolves and bears did not make for better moose hunting in a popular Southcentral game unit over nearly four decades., by retired Alaska Department of Fish and Game and University of Alaska Fairbanks researchers, focused on an area between Denali National Park and the Copper River that attracts hunters from Anchorage, Mat-Su and Fairbanks.
State wildlife officials, however, don’t plan to halt predator control programs — which aren’t active in the area now — and say moose numbers rose when predator control occurred on wolves over a shorter time. The study documented no correlation between brown and black bear harvest and subsequent moose hunts and no change in moose harvests when predator control programs were in effect for wolves versus a prior period without them.
“I don’t want to speak for my two co-authors but at least my motivation in part is to be able to say things that I think need to be said that local people are unable to say ... if they happen to agree,” he said in a recent interview. Paragi noted that the new study showed the number of moose in the unit peaked at about 20,000 in 2011 or 2012 and then began to drop even though wolves were not targeted for predator control during part of that time period — though hunting and trapping continued — so fewer were being killed.
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