Dr. Van Ballenberghe is correct, as usual.  Intensive Management (IM), is out of control, and doesn't work.  The Board of Game and ADFG simply will not listen to reason.  

This past summer, 150 Alaskans petitioned the Governor to reign-in the state's predator control programs, which he can do even with the current IM law.  The citizens petition asked that they State only use non-lethal IM (which it did successfully during the Knowles administration), prohibit "Judas wolf collaring", and prohibit IM within 5 miles of any federal conservation unit. 

The commissioner, always obedient to extreme hunting/trapping advocacy groups, declined, using many inaccurate arguments:

http://www.newsminer.com/news/local_news/fish-and-game-commissioner-rejects-changes-to-predator-control-methods/article_3b6b3cb8-8d30-11e6-ad05-93ac67f8873d.html

Let's hope the Legislature can take up the issue this session, and either repeal the 1994 IM law, or adjust it as Alaskans asked last summer.