Two subadult brown bears walk along a beach in Katmai National Park and Preserve in June 2018. (Photo by R. Taylor/National Park Service)
After an Anchorage Superior Court judge struck down a state program that kills bears in order to help caribou hunters, the Alaska Board of Game is proposing a new version of the program.
According to a public notice published Friday, the board will meet in July in Anchorage to consider changing the state’s predator control program to allow the killing of “brown and black bears in addition to wolves to aid in the recovery of the Mulchatna caribou herd.”…