{"id":7608,"date":"2018-11-04T19:30:36","date_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:30:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7608"},"modified":"2018-11-04T19:30:36","modified_gmt":"2018-11-05T02:30:36","slug":"interior-is-undoing-a-legacy-of-national-park-stewardship-in-alaska-high-country-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/?p=7608","title":{"rendered":"Interior is undoing a legacy of national park stewardship in Alaska | High Country News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Now, the Trump administration\u2019s Interior secretary is attempting to dismiss the fundamental rules of stewardship established by the National Park Service. The National Park Service regulations currently prohibit predator control \u00e2\u20ac\u201d selective killing of bears, wolves, and other predators \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and unscientific and inhumane killing methods. Zinke is attempting to rescind these regulations. This is being done with no legal and scientific basis, minimal stakeholder involvement, and a hasty public process. One hundred and eight scientists, current and retired wildlife and resource managers, and many of the nation\u2019s large carnivore experts, most with extensive experience in Alaska, have joined in sending a letter to Zinke adamantly opposing his action.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>Source:\u00c2\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hcn.org\/articles\/opinion-interior-is-undoing-a-legacy-of-national-park-stewardship-in-alaska-predator-control\">Interior is undoing a legacy of national park stewardship in Alaska | High Country News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8216;Now, the Trump administration\u2019s Interior secretary is attempting to dismiss the fundamental rules of stewardship established by the National Park Service. The National Park Service regulations currently prohibit predator control \u00e2\u20ac\u201d selective killing of bears, wolves, and other predators \u00e2\u20ac\u201d and unscientific and inhumane killing methods. Zinke is attempting to rescind these regulations. This is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7608"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7609,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7608\/revisions\/7609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/envirobeat.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}