Though the wildfire season really hasn’t started in the Rockies, Sierra Nevada, or Cascade ranges, its been well under way in Alaska, where national park fire managers are reporting unusual fire behavior.

“Statewide, fire managers were observing fire activity in May that they usually see in June and early July,” says Morgan Warthin, the National Park Service’s regional fire communication and ed

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In moves designed to counter Alaska’s current approach to wildlife management, National Park Service officials in that state are instituting hunting and trapping bans to protect wolves and bears in their parks and preserves.

Alaska’s approach to wildlife management has been described by critics as designed to reduce predator populations so there will be more game animals, such as caribou and mo

In a joint release, officials for the National Park Service and the Alaska Fish and Game Department have publicly resolved their differences over the killings of radio-collared wolves that roamed in and out of [url=www.nps.gov/yuch]Yukon-Charley Rivers Nation

Helicopter-borne Alaskan predator control agents have killed an entire wolf pack from Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve, prompting the National Parks Conservation Association to call for “immediate suspension” of the program near the national preserve.

National Park Service officials, meanwhile, are wondering why the shooters killed two r

Alaska wildlife officials, in a move certain to flare jurisdictional issues between the state and federal governments if OKed, are proposing that they be allowed to kill predators in national parks and preserves without prior approval from the National Park Service.

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In one of the "Iron man," or perhaps "Iron dog," events of sled-dog racing, the 1,000-mile Yukon Quest race is under way, with 24 teams mushing from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Whitehorse in the Canadian Yukon. The trail follows historic Gold Rush and Mail Delivery routes from the turn of the 20th Century, and passes through part of Yukon-Charley Rivers National Preserve.

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