I have personally witnessed the decline in bears near our road system in the Interior.  I think bear baiting has wiped out the bears.   I guess this was the intent of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. I also talked to a state trooper game warden who told me that the the State of Alaska only has four officers enforcing fish and game rules for the northern half of Alaska.  This is far too few.  As far as the feud between the State and the feds this has been going on since statehood.  The feds claim ownership of 64 percent of Alaska and most of that is in the form of parks and refuges.  We have more parks and refuges than the entire rest of the US.  ANWR alone is larger than the combined area of the five smallest states including Delaware.  As such we are over run and subject to over reach by the federal governemnt and there is nothing we can do about it but complain.