State blocks release of polar bear recommendations

Mon, May 19, 2008
Posted in Alaska News, Top Stories

While many ears were tuned in for the Interior department’s polar bear listing decision late last week, a UAA professor’s long standing request for the comments of state biologists on the proposal were finally denied. Rick Steiner with the Marine Advisory program at UAA has spent the last 6 months trying to get pre-decisional comments from state staff regarding their recommendations for the bear.

Lori Townsend, APRN – Anchorage