To Mr. Bell and others, Alaska Board of Game not wedded to science as you state.  It continues with predator control as practiced while the National Research Council of the National Academy Of Science took a thorough look at this program some years ago, found it wanting, gave recommendations, then its chair came back and found none of the recommended changes were implemented.  Well there's resistance and those who follow Game Board are well aware. The point of Mr Bell, that science tells us what and how to value and those not inline with such thinking are to be dismissed as emotional is just wrong, even scientifically wrong.  Mr. Wolforth in fact makes a case for a real independent scientific look at the game board's endless predator control. Not a very emotional plea really. Values may be shaped by understanding but science serves  
values seems to me,  not  the other way around.  Extreme case in point, Mengele, Hitler's scientist used science in awful  human  experiments.