Both harvesting and egging for Emperor geese are closed this season. Black Brant geese can be harvested, but egging is not permitted.

If the state Department of Fish and Game predator control takes place, it would be the third year of a program that has so far killed 180 bears and 19 wolves.

The board’s action allows the Alaska Department of Fish and Game to continue killing bears and wolves for a third season in the range of the shrunken Mulchatna caribou herd.

A predator-control program in Western Alaska, recently ruled unconstitutional, is needed to boost the ailing Mulchatna caribou herd, state game managers say.

The bill would require designated seats on the seven-member board to represent commercial, sport, and subsistence sectors, along with one representing scientists.

AVCP and Tanana Chiefs Conference, along with the City of Bethel, claimed that recent groundfish harvest management in the Bering Sea wasn’t properly taking into account major changes to the ocean ecosystem, including fisheries collapses on the Yukon and Kuskokwim rivers, and thus violated federal law.

Alaska Wildlife Troopers say two 16-year-old residents allegedly killed a bull moose a short distance from the community’s airport, failed to salvage the meat, and shot the moose using an unpermitted type of rifle.

Alaska has killed more than 200 bears as part of its "intensive management" program intended to help a caribou herd.

Once one of the states largest caribou herds, southwestern Alaska's Mulchatna caribou herds' low population has failed to recover. Researchers are examining disease and nutrition to understand why.

The issue pits a multibillion-dollar industry against Western Alaska subsistence communities struggling with record-low salmon returns — with climate change playing a pivotal role.