In today’s Midday Report with host Terry Haines: A community garden proposal is making its way toward Sitka’s assembly for approval. Almost half of Alaska’s Head Start early learning programs are in danger of losing millions of dollars in federal funding. And Alaska’s predator control programs do not work, according to research by two retired state Fish and Game biologists and a University of Alaska Fairbanks professor.
This photo was published in an Alaska Department of Fish and Game pamphlet “Understanding Intensive Predator Management in Alaska,” part of the department’s efforts in 2012 to educate the public about practices that have been controversial, especially to observers outside Alaska. (Steve Dubois/Alaska Department of Fish and Game)