Editor’s Note: Fish and Game’s response to Benda’s claims

In last week’s paper, Larry Benda in a paid commentary responded to a letter to the editor written by Tom Faverty. In this and Benda’s recent paid commentary, he said he believes Alaska Department of Fish and Game biologists manipulated brown bear data. Given the serious claim that Fish and Game biologists intentionally lied, and the public interest in this issue, I reached out to Fish and Game biologists to get their response to Benda’s…