Alaska Predator Control Hunting Regulations Could Lead To Legal Action

With Presidential administration changes come potential shifts in previous regulations. Now, as President Donald Trump is back aboard, a controversial predator control hunting approach in Alaska could create more division. Here’s more from the Alaska Beacon:

Alaskans who enjoy watching bears and other wildlife have legitimate grounds to sue the state over predator-control programs that may put those same animals at risk, the Alaska Supreme Court ruled on Friday.

The ruling reinstating a lawsuit, dismissed earlier by a Superior Court judge, that challenged a state program that is killing bears and wolves to try to boost a faltering Western Alaska caribou herd.

Michelle Bittner, the Anchorage attorney who filed the lawsuit in 2023, does have legal standing to challenge the controversial program that has killed nearly 200 bears so far, the Supreme Court found.

Standing, in legal terms, is the authority to challenge an action or law in court.