Doug Vincent-Lang
Role at the time: Commissioner, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, in a statement quoted by the Alaska Beacon
Statement summary
Vincent-Lang thanks the Interior Department and the Park Service for the changes and calls the rule a necessary return to the fish and wildlife management framework set by the Alaska Constitution and ANILCA.
“We thank the Department of Interior and the National Park Service for making these and other changes in the rule. The change represents a necessary return to the fish and wildlife management framework established by the Alaska Constitution and reaffirmed in ANILCA, which had served Alaska for three decades”
Alaska Beacon report on the final rule as first published on October 16, 2026, carried in full by Yahoo News, with statements from Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, Alaska Fish and Game Commissioner Doug Vincent-Lang and conservation groups.
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The reference point is the National Park Service's final rule allowing sport hunters to use bait to hunt bears in Alaska's national preserves, part of its restoration of state-authorized harvest methods there. Vincent-Lang, whose department regulates baiting under state law, welcomes the rule as a necessary return to state-led wildlife management.