Nathan Svoboda
Wildlife Biologist · Alaska Department of Fish and Game
9 articles · 3 transcripts · 4 clips
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Federal managers close subsistence elk hunt on Afognak refuge lands for the season
“Hunters remain in the field, and it is likely additional elk have been taken and not yet reported.”
Four Kodiak mountain goat hunts open Nov. 1; four stay closed after high hunter success
Four Kodiak Island mountain goat hunts open to Alaska residents Nov. 1. Four others stay shut because hunters already hit the harvest goal in the drawing hunts.
Fish and Game closes eastern Afognak elk hunt Wednesday as harvest nears objective
Hunters reported 15 elk on eastern Afognak against a harvest objective of 16, so Fish and Game is closing the late registration hunt there Wednesday night.
Late elk hunt won't open on western Afognak after hunters near the harvest limit
Afognak elk hunters already reported 51 of the 54 elk Fish and Game planned to allow, so the late registration hunt won't open on the island's west side.
Kodiak Island Borough plans bear hazing at landfill Monday as bear reaches resident's door
“strongly food-conditioned bears”
Cordova weighs an $870,000 electrified bear fence for its landfill
“this is a generational problem, it might take a while to convince these younger bears that this is no longer a good food source.”
Haines woman seriously injured by bear on Mt. Riley Road
“We have a community that cares and we have a community that responds when needed.”
State says Kodiak landfill is out of compliance on bears and borough could be fined
“we're in agreement that the borough could be getting fined for negligently feeding wildlife”
Kodiak keeps a road-sand storage lease its assembly had said it wanted to end
Kodiak's Service Area No. 1 will keep paying ~$12,600 a year to store road sand on a lease several assembly members had said last fall they wanted ended.
