With summer upon us more people will be heading outdoors to recreate. Undoubtedly, some people will come across young animals. Alaska law prohibits the taking or holding of live animals (including birds) without a permit from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, so it’s important to know what to do if you find a young animal that seems to be ‘abandoned’.
Deer fawns will be born from late May to early June. As newborns, fawns are cute, and it can be hard to resist touching or picking them up. However, it is in their best interest not to be picked up or handled under any circumstances. Female deer will often leave their fawns for hours at a time while foraging, and a fawn without a mother in the immediate area is not necessarily abandoned or lost. It’s likely that the mother is watching from a distance or will return later. If left alone, the fawn and mother will be reunited. If picked up and removed from the area, it’s less likely that the doe will be reunited with the fawn.
Harbor seal pups are born between May and mid-July and may be found along beaches. Young pups are capable of swimming with their mothers almost immediately after birth. Pups are weaned at about one month after birth, separating from their mother to start their own life. If you see pups hauled out on a beach, dock, or elsewhere, please leave them alone. Stressing the seals by harassing them is not only harmful, it’s illegal.
If you observe a young animal that appears to have been left alone for more than 48 hours, contact the nearest Alaska Department of Fish and Game office during regular business hours, or use the department’s smartphone-friendly link to file a report online by visiting http://www.adfg.alaska.gov and clicking the “Report a Wildlife Encounter” button. If a situation involves an immediate public safety concern, call 9-1-1.
Ketchikan Fish and Game office: 907-225-2475.
Ketchikan Wildlife Troopers: 907-225-5118
Prince of Wales Wildlife Troopers: 907-826-2291
For Marine mammals that may be in distress please contact National Marine Fisheries Service Stranding hotline 1-877-925-7773. For more information, visit www.adfg.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=distressedwildlife.mammals.
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Ketchikan and Prince of Wales Management Areas
Response to inmate’s letter
I read Robert Snyder Jr.’s letter to editor February 16th, 2022. I’m glad the paper accepts the voice of a prisoner, which is rare. I’m 12 in on a 63 year sentence. I’m innocent and illegally convicted. The problem Robert describes is statewide. Our rights are systematically violated on a mass scale. It’s so bad, that one not gone through it could hardly accept that this happens in America.
The stigma of being a criminal works well to stifle our voice, there being prime conditions for white collar predators. I’ll be candid. The State has made a business out of criminal justice. Nothing short of slavery.
Most of us don’t even know our rights. Even less know how to put up a fight. I still have not seen the evidence (discovery) of why I’m doing life in max prison. My attorneys ignore all my questions/objectives. This is extremely suspicious for one person. That it is happening on a mass scale is RICO with our government. The best we can do is voice to the press.
The First Amendment is #1 for a reason. Then we must put in court record our grievances. An example that I’m doing is filing a criminal complaint on the attorneys, then attaching it to a bar complaint. Sec. 11.56.610 (a)(3), preventing the production of evidence (discovery is evidence) in a proceeding or investigation (accused) by deception (omission is deception) against anyone is a felony. Also Sec. 11.76.110 (a)(1)(b). And write to your legislators in the “Judiciary Standing Committee”. They need to know the scale of the problem. Also – UAA Justice Center is currently studying the problem.
Yoder Blalock
Spring Creek Correctional Center
Seward, AK
