Defenders of Wildlife: Alaska’s McNeil River Bears need your help!
February 9th, 2007 4:08 pm by KellyAlaska’s McNeil River Bears need your help!
Alaska’s McNeil River Wildlife Sanctuary boasts the largest congregation of brown bears in the world. But hunting restrictions that have protected these bears for more than 20 years are about to expire, and it’s up to us to help.
Please use the form below to compose a personalized message to the Board of Game, urging them to maintain a ban on hunting on state lands in the Kamishak Special Use Area adjacent to Katmai National Park and the McNeil River State Sanctuary. Our staff in Alaska will deliver your message to the Board of Game in advance of their meeting next month.
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February 12th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
I am really alarmed and saddened to hear that you are opening up the McNeil River bears to hunting in previously protected areas. The bears have been free from this threat in on state lands in the Kamishak Special Use Area adjacent to Katmai National Park and the McNeil River State Sanctuary for twenty or so years and there’s no reason to subject them to this horror now. These bears are special and beloved and too used to humans to make this proposal sporting. Please reverse your decision.