
Gleason also held that the Park Service acted arbitrarily and capriciously when it concluded that Alaska's wildlife management requirements were equivalent to those of the Park Service, and when it ignored its own previous finding that Alaska's regulations failed to address public safety concerns associated with bear baiting. In announcing the change at the time, the Park Service said its new position affirmed "the state of Alaska’s role in wildlife management on Alaska national preserves, consistent with the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act and Department of the Interior policies guiding the federal-state relationship in the management of fish and wildlife."īut last fall a federal judge said the Park Service had erred in relaxing its hunting and trapping regulations, ruling that the agency was wrong in believing it had to "defer to state hunting regulations." U.S.

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