Governor Mike Dunleavy is proposing additional hunting opportunities in the Matanuska-Susitna region by bringing in Sitka black-tailed deer . A state document obtained by the Anchorage Daily News points out a number of potential issues with that plan. KTNA’s Phillip Manning spoke with ADN report Zachariah Hughes about the story. Phillip Manning: I’ve got with me today Zachariah Hughes from the Anchorage Daily News, and we’re here to discuss a story that you wrote recently about the governor’s proposal for potentially moving Sitka black-tailed deer to the Mat-Su Borough. Can you give us just a little bit of an overview of how this story came about? Zachariah Hughes : So it’s pretty common for the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) to transplant animals. Currently, there’s a proposal to move Sitka black tailed deer into areas of the Matanuska and Susitna Valleys. And staff biologists wrote up a scoping document outlining, you know, what that might look like and some of the
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