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    New Alaska Draw System Idea

    Interesting idea. Surely this has been proposed and or tried somewhere else in the past? I like the idea of your chances getting better the more money you throw into the system. How to administer such a goal and design without creating a bunch of unintended consequences is a big problem to...
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    NPS to Ban Bear Baiting, Predator Control on Alaska Preserves

    Migrating birds, waterfowl, endangered species, game parts and pieces crossing borders, marine mammals, salmon in subsistence fisheries, big game seasons and limits for subsistence hunters on federal lands, etc. etc. Like it or not, the feds are all up in the business of wildlife management in...
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    NPS to Ban Bear Baiting, Predator Control on Alaska Preserves

    That is right. This is nothing new and these narrow limitations on specific harvest practices were all previously in place before they were rescinded in 2020 by a new administration. Wildlife should be and is managed by the state, but the feds have a role to play as well. As a side note, the...
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    AK Sheep BOG Comments due Oct 13

    Well. That was both disappointing, but entirely unsurprising. Of the 80+ public comments that were submitted, damn near all of them highlighted commercial interests and non-res/guided pressure and harvest as a significant, if not primary issue. No one. Not one single person on the board or...
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    Historically Low Alaska Sheep Harvest

    What is the ‘22 number?
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    Sublegal ram on guided sheep hunt

    Most of the “guides” guiding these hunters in Alaska are assistants, and not the more experienced master or registered guide. Currently there is no requirement that the guide with the client has any previous experience hunting the animal that they are guiding the client for. It happens...
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    At what point are you guiding without a license?

    If and how you are related doesn't matter. It is this simple... Guiding services provided + compensation received = guiding license required. As has been noted several times above, guiding services and compensation both have very specific definitions in the law, and those can vary from state...
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    At what point are you guiding without a license?

    When are you guiding without a license? In most states this is a very simple question to answer, and one need not rely on common sense and keeping the financial details of the arrangement secret to protect yourself. It is always wise to read and understand the laws that are applicable in your...
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    2022 Sheep Harvest Photos

    I know that spot! Great ram and congrats man. Curious, what did they age him at? Hard to tell if he has some annuli stacked up there at the bases.
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    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    https://www.doi.gov/sites/doi.gov/files/wsa-unit-7-dall-sheep-2022-emergency-action.pdf
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    AK Sheep, Population Observations

    I think it was the fed subsistence board, right, not an agency? I've heard a few reports from some youth hunts so far. None have been encouraging, which is no surprise.
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    Full Curl or Not

    Definitely not full curl. Nice mass for a young sheep. Looks like maybe 6y/o to me? He will be a stud in a few years.
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    Historically Low Alaska Sheep Harvest

    I am not sure that info exists, and if it does, probably not in the public sphere. Based on the number of qualified people and the places that subsistence sheep hunting takes place, I don't think that subsistence harvest has had a population level impact in the past. That having been said...
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    Historically Low Alaska Sheep Harvest

    They would rule that if the people want the laws passed by congress to be amended, they will need to lobby their elected officials to make that happen. Existing statutory law is a much different topic than stare decisis.
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    Historically Low Alaska Sheep Harvest

    What do you think of the Whitten report that seems to counter Geist/Nichols and offer the opposite and currently pushed scientific narrative in support of full curl harvest? https://www.adfg.alaska.gov/static/home/library/pdfs/wildlife/research_pdfs/alces/4736.pdf If most ewes are getting...
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    Historically Low Alaska Sheep Harvest

    There is nothing that "we" can or will do to increase the number of Dall sheep on the mountain. As has been noted repeatedly throughout these recent AK sheep threads, harvest is not a population level impact. Curtailing or eliminating harvest will not have a population level impact up or...
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    If the boot fits…wear it!

    Sheep hunters?
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    Hold on to your GMU 23/26A Shorts boys

    Bingo. That is the part that doesn't sit well for me. The closure has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with science and sound management and decision making. Not the way it should be.
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    Chugach Sheep Hunts

    Yep that makes sense and thanks for the explanation. What is the common terminology for the pre-ANILCA park lands where no hunting of any sort is allowed?
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    Chugach Sheep Hunts

    See also the "Bag Limit" section in the ADFG regs, page 16, and "Harvest Limit" section of the fed regs, pages 16-17. If you have killed a fed subsistence ram in the state, you may not take another ram under state regs, as there are no areas in the state that have a 2 ram bag limit. Thinking...

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