US District Court finds Kake emergency subsistence hunt lawful under ANILCA

The US District Court of Anchorage has rejected the state's appeal of an emergency subsistence hunt in Kake in 2020. Judge Sharon Gleason wrote that the regulations which allow the federal government to "open public lands for the 'taking of fish and wildlife’ for ‘public safety reasons,’ is valid as applied to the emergency hunt for Kake.” Read More