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...Matanuska-Susitna Borough, home to one of the state's densest moose populations, according to Tim Peltier, an assistant area biologist for the Department of Fish and Game's Palmer offices. The last number he'd heard was 269 - one less than...
...northern pike. With the 2003 fish stocking under way, state sportfish management biologist Matt Miller and assistant area biologist Dan Bosch have begun netting and trapping pike from three popular lakes. They caught a dozen large pike in last...
...for a tour company. "It's great to be alive," The bear's behavior was normal for a surprised sow, said assistant area biologist Jessy Coltrane with the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. She posted a sign at the trail head warning people...
...The fish seem to be really fresh at Kowee Creek, they still have some sea life on them," said Jason Gasper, assistant area biologist for ADF&G. "I would expect the fishing to get better upstream as fall progresses." Although there has been...
...bears killed this year and in the recent past are the result of bears getting food rewards around humans," said assistant area biologist Thomas McDonough. Household garbage, salmon carcasses, fish coolers and backpacks have attracted bears, McDonough...
...Conservation of the state Department of Fish and Game is considering putting transmitters on the bears, Marvin said. Assistant area biologist Polly Hessing said it was a "low possibility." "We are talking about it," Hessing said. "We had some...
...the underbrush -- and bears respond. ``Downtown backs up to A-1 bear habitat,'' said Polly Hessing, assistant area biologist with the state department of Fish and Game. ``It isn't unusual for bears to come out in the morning or evening...
...moving off, but they're using the creek and staying. They're living in Far North Bicentennial Park," assistant area biologist Jessy Coltrane, who helped Farley with the study, told the Daily News. Forestry officials approve timber sale...
...the underbrush -- and bears respond. ``Downtown backs up to A-1 bear habitat,'' said Polly Hessing, assistant area biologist with the state department of Fish and Game. ``It isn't unusual for bears to come out in the morning or evening...
...killing bears, was unsuccessful. There have been two recent peaks of nuisance bear deaths, said Hessing, an assistant area biologist. In 1987, 14 bears were killed -- two by Fish and Game, nine by police. During the second peak, in 1991...