Yes if the United States government continues to have it their way in Alaska. Unless a future American president appoints a cabinet member who's friendly to conservation management and, that president is also conservation minded, the Dept of Interior is bent on eliminating or at best, severely restricting recreational hunting.
What would you cite as examples of the govt trying to eliminate and/or severely restrict hunting in Alaska?
From what I have been trying to track, I see some very specific actions and orders in a few very specific places.
You make it sound like there is a massive overarching push by the govt to lock us "sport" hunters out of federal public lands, but I just don't see that on the scale you describe.
Here is the list of recent federal wildlife management decisions that affect hunting on fed public lands in AK that I am aware of. I am sure it is an incomplete list.
1. Unit 13 fed lands covid closure, sport hunters, no longer applicable.
2. Units 24A-26B fed lands W of Sag sheep closure, all hunters, expires 2024
3. Units 23 and 26A fed lands moose and caribou closure, sport hunters, expires 2024
4. Mulchatna closure, joint decision supported by the state, all hunters, no expiration
5. NPS proposed restriction on certain types of predator harvest in Preserves, sport hunters
Three of these things are temporary "emergency" actions that have an expiration date. The Mulchatna closure is supported by the state and is based on population concerns. The NPS deal is just a proposal last I looked into it.
My biggest gripe with the feds isn't necessarily what decisions get made, but why and how they get made. Science and conservation don't seem to be the driving forces...
As for ADFG "capitulating" to the feds on fish and wildlife management decisions, quite the opposite. They have pushed back hard in the form of lawsuits on every decision they didn't agree with. Right?
I think it is also noteworthy that most of these management decisions on fed public lands are made by the Federal Subsistence Board, which is not just DOI.