Alaska's federal wildlife refuges are managed for natural occurring diversity and are treasures in public ownership that contribute to society generally and to Alaskan society particularly in ways cultural, scientific and economic. They are a tribute to society who possess the foresight to establish and manage them appropriately. The savage barbarity of Intensive Management predator control on refuges dished out by the Alaska Board of Game (BOG) militates against intended refuge biodiversity and has caused its so-called BOG management authority to be seriously challenged, removed actually.
This challenge is now challenged in turn by Senator Murkowski who, charging federal overreach, seems to have it all backwards, ignoring the
egregious abuse by the Alaska BOG, seeded by the hopeless relic of our Legislature, the 1994 Intensive Management Act. Hopefully the refuges will continue instead to be managed for the biodiversity of healthy ecosystems in which  predators alive have a key role.