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A measure moving the Alaskan capital from Juneau to a location in Western Alaska within thirty miles of Anchorage [9] Failed [13] 26,542 (45.09%) 32,325 (54.91%) Bonding Proposition 1 A measure providing $5,950,000 in funding for new buildings at the University of Alaska (equivalent to $60,000,000 in 2023) [11] Passed [13] 42,747 (76.07% ...
Originally focused on fisheries science and fish culture, the Bureau of Fisheries also assumed other duties; in 1906, the U.S. Congress assigned it the responsibility for the enforcement of fishery and fur seal-hunting regulations in the Territory of Alaska, [15] and in 1910 for the management and harvest of northern fur seals, foxes, and other ...
The Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) is a department within the government of Alaska.ADF&G's mission is to protect, maintain, and improve the fish, game, and aquatic plant resources of the state, and manage their use and development in the best interest of the economy and the well-being of the people of the state, consistent with the sustained yield principle. [1]
Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes ...
North American hunting pre-dates the United States by thousands of years and was an important part of many pre-Columbian Native American cultures. Native Americans retain some hunting rights and are exempt from some laws as part of Indian treaties and otherwise under federal law [1] —examples include eagle feather laws and exemptions in the Marine Mammal Protection Act.
The Alaska State House of Representatives is the lower house in the Alaska State Legislature, ... (2023) 19 1 1 2 4 2 11 40 0 End 33rd (2024) 20 1
2017 - Alaska v. Zinke [9] 2010 - West v. State Board of Game [10] 2004 - Alaska Center for Environment v. Rue [11] 2003 - Alaska Wildlife Alliance v. State [12] 2001 - National Parks and Conservation Ass'n v. Babbitt [13] 1999 - Brooks v. Wright [14] 1999 - Alaska Center for Environment v. US Forest Service [15] 1999 - Alaska State Snowmobile ...
The Act provided for 43.585 million acres (176,380 km 2) of new national parklands in Alaska; the addition of 9.8 million acres (40,000 km 2) to the National Wildlife Refuge System; twenty-five wild and scenic rivers, with twelve more to be studied for that designation; establishment of Misty Fjords and Admiralty Island National Monuments in ...