Afognak Island elk study looks at balancing logging with game management

Roosevelt elk, the type of elk found on Afognak Island. (Dan Dzurisin / Flickr)A study of elk and bears on an island in the Kodiak Archipelago will try to help balance game management and logging.
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The Alaska Department of Fish and Game and its partners, including Kodiak area native corporations, are at the beginning of a two-and-a-half-year, $1.8 million-dollar study on Afognak Island.
Researchers hope it will lead to a long-term forest management strategy they can work on with native