Alaska officials are seeking emergency authorization to keep killing bears and wolves in a region in the western part of the state even though a judge ruled a week ago that the state predator control program there was .
Alaska Department of Fish and Game on March 21  the state Board of Game for an emergency regulation allowing the “intensive management� program to continue for a third year in the range of the ailing Mulchatna Caribou Herd.
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