Agreeing with Strada, often right here in Alaska "sound science" it seems false justification for  questionable  policy at best as politically motivated.  I refer to the Alaska Board of Game and it's lapdog Alaska Department of Fish and Game in its ongoing campaign to implement the Intensive Management Act of 1994, a political nod to the trophy and sport hunters in particular supporting ridicules sly excessive hunting seasons for a numbing slaughter of so-called predators, bears and wolves in what should be naturally occurring ecosystems, instead manipulated into wildland game hunting farms, removing 80% of the natural predators  (a formula voiced by ADFG's Bruce Dale himself). Actually, science is  really used to kill  predators more efficiently (reminds of Hitler's science for killing jews most efficiently). Time ago the National Research Council of the National Academy of Science took a detailed look twice  concluding ADFG predator control is scientifically lacking then and now.