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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 ↗

Dall sheep ram above the valley, Denali National Park, Alaska
Dall sheep ram above the valley, Denali National Park, Alaska · public land, held in trust for you

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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.

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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…

Federal Register 2026-04606 ↗

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