The debate surrounding wolves on Prince of Wales Island pits Alaska biologists against Oakland California-based conservation groups
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64 wolves taken on POW in 2021
JANUARY 2022
It was pretty easy for trappers to get wolves in the month-long season again. Let the biologists in Alaska, not Oakland take the lead.
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Feds consider protections for wolves
JULY 2021
KRBD
A notice in the federal register published on Tuesday found merit to a conservationist coalition’s 111-page petition that says logging and road development, illegal and legal trapping and hunting, the effects of climate change and loss of genetic diversity were factors threatening Southeast Alaska’s Alexander Archipelago wolf population. -
68 wolves taken by trappers on Prince of Wales Island as conservationists object
JAN. 2021
ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS
Alaska wildlife officials have reported that 68 wolves were taken by trappers in 2020 on or near Prince of Wales Island.Conservationists unsuccessfully attempted to block the 21-day wolf trapping season from November to December, CoastAlaska reported on Thursday.
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Almost All of the Wolves on One Alaskan Island Were Killed by Trappers This Winter
APRIL 2020
NEWSWEEK
Conservation groups are calling on the U.S. Forest Service (FS) to take urgent action in order to protect a vulnerable population of wolves living on Prince of Wales Island in Alaska's Tongass National Forest after it emerged that 97 percent of the known population, given the most recent estimate, was legally killed during the 2019-2020 trapping season. -
Record number of wolves taken on Prince of Wales Island in Southeast
MARCH 2020
ALASKA PUBLIC MEDIA
Trappers reported taking almost as many wolves as had estimated to live on and around Prince of Wales Island. It’s a new record number of wolves — 165 taken in Unit 2 — which includes Prince of Wales and surrounding islands in Southeast Alaska.But residents behind the effort say it’s not cause for alarm.