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Alaska; Hunting and Trapping in National Preserves
National Park Service· Alaska national preserves, Wrangell-St. Elias National PreserveFederal Register 2026-04606 ↗

The groups on this fight
4 groups work Alaska
By footprint, from the same match the STAND matchmaker runs; none is linked to this decision in our record yet. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Alaska Wilderness League
Works Alaska: built around defending the Arctic Refuge from oil and gas drilling.
- Friends of Alaska National Wildlife Refuges
Works Alaska: lead plaintiff in the November 2025 federal suit challenging the land exchange signed to put a road through the Izembek Wilderness.
- Southeast Alaska Conservation Council
Works Alaska: southeast Alaska’s homegrown defender of the Tongass since 1970.
- The Wilderness Society
Works Alaska: has litigated the 211-mile Ambler industrial road since the original 2020 approvals.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
The National Park Service is proposing to roll back hunting and trapping regulations in Alaska's national preserves that were put in place between 2015 and 2024, restoring older interpretations of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act from before those rules took effect. The changes would allow state-authorized harvest methods that had been restricted, including practices like hunting predators near dens and using bait for bears. It's driven by recent executive orders and a Secretarial Order aimed at expanding resource access in Alaska, and it'll affect hunters, trappers, wildlife managers, and conservation groups operating in Alaska's national preserves.
In the agency’s own words
The National Park Service proposes to amend its regulations for hunting, fishing, trapping, and other natural resource harvest in national preserves in Alaska and for the procedures used to restrict public use and access in Alaska park lands. These changes restore National Park Service interpretations of law, policies, and regulations adopted to implement the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act of 1980 that were in effect for over three decades. Rulemaking in 2015, 2017, and 2024 preempted methods of State-authorized fish and wildlife harvests, revised codified and established procedures for restricti…
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