Alaska's modern-day/reckless wildlife managers finally outmaneuvered many visionary leaders dating back to 1922, who advocated protection for wildlife leaving Denali National Park, and entering the adjacent Stampede trail corridor. The world's most viewed pack had its last surviving wolves slaughtered during the summer of 2016. 

Alaska's first railroad commissioner recommended protection of this area in 1922, as did the Administrations of Presidents Johnson, Nixon, Ford, and Carter. Senator Ted Stevens shepherded the 1980 parks expansion bill through a political mine field, it included legislative intent that a future land trade was needed to protect habitat in the Stampede Trail corridor. The AOC's Dick Bishop, then president of the Tanana Yukon Chapter of the Alaska Conservation Society, advocated protection for this area in his comments under the 1974 "Final Environmental Statement for the Proposed Mt. McKinley National Park Additions".  This list goes on and on.