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  "path": "/2026/05/04/judge-considers-request-to-halt-controversial-bear-cull-in-western-alaska/",
  "publishedAt": "2026-05-04T22:27:25.000Z",
  "site": "https://alaskabeacon.com",
  "tags": [
    "Economy & Environment",
    "Justice",
    "Adolf Zeman",
    "Alaska Department of Fish and Game",
    "bears",
    "Katmai National Park and Preserve",
    "Mulchatna caribou herd",
    "predator control",
    "subsistence",
    "subsistence hunting",
    "Togiak National Wildlife Refuge"
  ],
  "textContent": "With the Alaska Department of Fish and Game poised to start culling bears in a program to boost the population of a depleted caribou herd, critics have asked a state judge to block the program before the shooting begins. The Alaska Wildlife Alliance is seeking an injunction to prevent the department from resuming a controversial […]",
  "title": "Judge considers request to halt controversial bear cull in Western Alaska"
}