Alaska Hunting

SEATTLE -- Just when they thought Ted Nugent didn't have any more arrows to unleash, it turns out he did: specifically, an arrow aimed at a bear during a hunting trip in southeastern Alaska that has now landed the rocker-turned-outdoorsman in federal court. In a plea agreement filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Nugent will plead guilty to one count of transporting an illegally hunted bear - an offense that could result in a $10,000 fine. Nugent, 63, was on Alaska's Sukkwan Island in May 2009 filming an episode of his Outdoor Channel television show, “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild,” which is described on his website as the “ultimate hands-on conservation lifestyle television show.” According to court documents, he was bow hunting near a bait station designed to attract black bears when he fired an arrow that wounded a bear, which then ran off. Nugent “failed to locate and harvest the wounded black bear,” the plea agreement said, and then four days later, he shot and killed another black bear at one of the registered bait sites and then transported it off the island.

SEATTLE -- Just when they thought Ted Nugent didn't have any more arrows to unleash, it turns out he did: specifically, an arrow aimed at a bear during a hunting trip in southeastern Alaska that has now landed the rocker-turned-outdoorsman in federal court. In a plea agreement filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, Nugent will plead guilty to one count of transporting an illegally hunted bear - an offense that could result in a $10,000 fine. Nugent, 63, was on Alaska's Sukkwan Island in May 2009 filming an episode of his Outdoor Channel television show, “Ted Nugent Spirit of the Wild,” which is described on his website as the “ultimate hands-on conservation lifestyle television show.” According to court documents, he was bow hunting near a bait station designed to attract black bears when he fired an arrow that wounded a bear, which then ran off. Nugent “failed to locate and harvest the wounded black bear,” the plea agreement said, and then four days later, he shot and killed another black bear at one of the registered bait sites and then transported it off the island.

Gov. Tony Knowles canceled the state's wolf-kill program Friday, calling it cruel and ineptly run. Knowles had suspended the program and ordered an investigation after a botched wolf kill was shown on nationwide television Nov. 29. The footage showed a state hunter shooting a snared wolf four times before it died. Also shown was a wolf that had gnawed its leg to a bloody stump in a failed attempt to escape a snare.

As Congress prepares to square off over oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a small company has quietly applied to drill 680 miles to the south, on the Copper River Delta. It is hard to imagine a plan more likely to set off alarm bells with environmentalists, for the 700,000-acre delta is the most important shorebird stopover on the Pacific Coast--and home of the best-tasting salmon in the world.

Alaska has suspended its wolf-control program after a TV station showed a snared wolf being shot five times before it died and another that chewed off part of its leg in a futile attempt to escape. Nearly 700 snare traps will be removed from a 1,000-square-mile area in the Alaska Range south of Fairbanks, state Fish and Game Commissioner Carl Rosier said. Rosier's decision came after a telephone conversation with Gov.

Unlike the rest of the country, the Alaska wilderness is prowled by thousands of gray wolves. Concerns about the state's wild image--and the money that image generates--have ensured that hundreds of the animals will live at least a year longer. The state Board of Game adopted a plan in November to shoot about 300 wolves from the air to build up caribou and moose populations in two areas near Fairbanks.

As Congress prepares to square off over oil drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a small company has quietly applied to drill 680 miles to the south, on the Copper River Delta. It is hard to imagine a plan more likely to set off alarm bells with environmentalists, for the 700,000-acre delta is the most important shorebird stopover on the Pacific Coast--and home of the best-tasting salmon in the world.

Todd Hardesty/Alaska Video Postcards Inc. One of the Grant Creek pack's two primary breeding females during the 2009-10 season at Denali. The wolf died of natural causes this spring, while the other female was snared in a trap. SEATTLE - The prime breeding female wolf snared outside Alaska's Denali National Park this spring - opening new controversy over hunting and trapping on the outskirts of the 6-million-acre park - was so thin that her backbone and hipbones were protruding, according to the trapper who caught her in a snare.

The set of "The Young and the Restless" at CBS Television City falls silent as the cameraman zooms in on the kitchen and an intense conversation between Dr. Olivia Hastings (played by Tonya Lee Williams) and private eye Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) about her kidnapped child. Right behind the camera sits a smiling Anne-Marie Jobin, 18, who has flown from Montreal with her family to fulfill her dream--meeting the hunks of the long-running daytime soap.

The set of "The Young and the Restless" at CBS Television City falls silent as the cameraman zooms in on the kitchen and an intense conversation between Dr. Olivia Hastings (played by Tonya Lee Williams) and private eye Paul Williams (Doug Davidson) about her kidnapped child. Right behind the camera sits a smiling Anne-Marie Jobin, 18, who has flown from Montreal with her family to fulfill her dream--meeting the hunks of the long-running daytime soap.

Gov. Tony Knowles canceled the state's wolf-kill program Friday, calling it cruel and ineptly run. Knowles had suspended the program and ordered an investigation after a botched wolf kill was shown on nationwide television Nov. 29. The footage showed a state hunter shooting a snared wolf four times before it died. Also shown was a wolf that had gnawed its leg to a bloody stump in a failed attempt to escape a snare.

Alaska has suspended its wolf-control program after a TV station showed a snared wolf being shot five times before it died and another that chewed off part of its leg in a futile attempt to escape. Nearly 700 snare traps will be removed from a 1,000-square-mile area in the Alaska Range south of Fairbanks, state Fish and Game Commissioner Carl Rosier said. Rosier's decision came after a telephone conversation with Gov.

Unlike the rest of the country, the Alaska wilderness is prowled by thousands of gray wolves. Concerns about the state's wild image--and the money that image generates--have ensured that hundreds of the animals will live at least a year longer. The state Board of Game adopted a plan in November to shoot about 300 wolves from the air to build up caribou and moose populations in two areas near Fairbanks.

Holy call of the wild: Can't we all just stop killing animals for a while? OK, that's one too many allusions. But it has been a bad spell for America's predators. In Santa Monica on Tuesday, a mountain lion was killed by officers after it wandered into the courtyard of an office building.  And in Alaska this spring, a trapper caught and killed the only breeding female wolf from Denali National Park's Grant Creek pack. Predictably, in both cases animal rights folks -- and just plain folks -- were upset.

In a new package of policies criticized even by some hunters, the Alaska Board of Game on Tuesday opened the door to aerial gunning of bears by state wildlife officials. It also debated a measure that would allow more widespread snaring of bears -- including grizzlies, which are officially considered threatened across most of the U.S. The controversial "intensive management" moves are the latest in a series of increasingly aggressive control methods targeting bears and wolves in Alaska.