Wrangell’s government is speaking out against a petition to put Southeast Alaska wolves on the federal endangered species list.
urging the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service not to list the wolves of the Alexander Archipelago as endangered. The resolution pushes the federal government to consider recent restrictions on development in the Tongass.
This is the third time the area’s wolves have been considered for a place on the endangered species list. The first two times Fish & Wildlife didn’t find it was warranted.
“The problem I have with this is the petition idea itself,” Dalrymple explained to fellow assembly members on Feb. 14. “In my opinion, petition is not necessarily a government function, it’s [for] individuals and organizations. And I think we have a higher level of sovereignty here than just add our name on to something. And I do have problems with some of the wording in that petition.
That’s what Wrangell’s Assembly did. In its resolution, written at Dalrymple and Mayor Patty Gilbert’s urging, the Assembly lays out a number of reasons for why it opposes the designation. One is that wolves are highly mobile and move between the mainland, through Wrangell and on to other islands of the archipelago. Moreover, the borough doesn’t support the designation of the wolves of Southeast as a distinct subspecies of wolf in the first place.
Wrangell’s resolution also argues that Southeast communities would suffer with a decrease of subsistence and sport hunting, as well as bear regulatory burdens if the wolves were protected under the federal Endangered Species Act.
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