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Active or passive game management

Akcabin

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Much of the wildlife on our federal public lands is managed using a passive wildlife management system. Meaning that wildlife is kinda on its own with 0 being included in the allowable management goal. A good example of this is happening on Unimak island in the ak allution chain. Where our federal government feels that if all the caribou died off that is OK with their management plan. Primarily because they migrated their hundreds of years ago and are considered as invasive.
Our State biologists feel that the decline is caused by too many wolves. And feel this herd and the wolves eating them will both be gone. Sooooon. And are required by State law to manage for maximum sustained yield. Using active game management practices. And would like to cull some wolves to balance things out. So both species can survive.
So the folks who live there. And the rest of the world can enjoy hunting these valuable game resources. On our public lands. And harvesting meat for their families.
If you haven't looked into this in your state, you may want to consider it.
 
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The fact that the population of the entire state of AK is less than 750,000 is why that type of game management would not work in most other places.
There is just too much demand on the resource to let nature run it's course given the millions of hunters in the lower 48 of the U.S.
 
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This sounds like a replay of the Isle Royale moose/wolf dilema. Rather than let the wolves die off due to inbreeding, then the moose graze the place to bare rocks before all starving to death and leaving the island devoid of all flora and fauna, the National Park Service finally elected to do the unnatural thing and imported mainland wolves to freshen the gene pool and keep both exotic species in balance. Just as well. The island has been an unnatural freak show tourist attraction for maybe a hundred years. It would take hundreds of years to restore the "original" old growth forest needed to sustain "natural" endemic woodland caribou.
 

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