FONSI Hunting Guide Concessions EA, Katmai National Preserve, Alaska

The NPS considered public comments and selected Alternative C - Award Guided Hunting Contracts for the Revised Sugarloaf and Moraine Creek Guide Areas in the Preserve. Alternative C enables the NPS to make a major adjustment to guide areas and associated client limits for guided hunting service contracts in the Preserve to better apportion area resources, hunter options, and business opportunities. This alternative continues to to provide an opportunity for all USA citizens to hunt brown bears and foreign hunters to hunt any big game in the Katmai National Preserve pursuant to federal and State of Alaska laws and regulations. The best available biological data show that observed brown bear numbers in Katmai National Preserve have increased since 1980 and that "high concentrations of brown bears" continue to be observed and have not been adversely affected by ongoing guided and unguided hunting in the past 30 years.

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