Group sues to block moving predator control back to State

The measure, seen by Alaska wildlife managers as a return to local control, has been widely depicted as creating open season on wolf and bear cubs, which state wildlife officials have argued never happened or would happened.

President Trump signed legislation on April 3 — rushed through Congress under the Congressional Review Act — that repealed an Obama administration rule that prohibited killing wolves and their pups in their dens, gunning down bears at bait stations and shooting them from airplanes. Under the legislation signed by Trump, all of these practices can now be allowed.

The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court in Anchorage, challenges the constitutionality of the Congressional Review Act, a 1996 law allowing legislators to repeal federal regulations adopted in the last few months of the previous presidential administration.

The suit says that the Congressional Review Act violates the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers doctrine by preventing the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service from future rulemaking that is “substantially the same” as the disapproved rule.

Here’s a detail response from ADF&G previously released to address the claims about what the predator control changes are and mean:

http://alaskaoutdoordigest.com/hunting/facts-dont-support-predator-hysteria/