Will the new AK subsistence board changes impact sheep hunting?

[CJ19]

i see a new rule has come down that will increase size of AK subsistence boards by 3 members. If i understand this rule correctly this is a move to ensure more equity for AK natives and requires the 3 new board members are tribal members or tribally recommended.

Can some folks with more AK knowledge weigh in if this is likely to take more sheep hunting opportunity on public lands off the table for non subsistence users?

 

[B_Reynolds_AK]

i see a new rule has come down that will increase size of AK subsistence boards by 3 members. If i understand this rule correctly this is a move to ensure more equity for AK natives and requires the 3 new board members are tribal members or tribally recommended.

Can some folks with more AK knowledge weigh in if this is likely to take more sheep hunting opportunity on public lands off the table for non subsistence users?

Based on the amount of tribal land that is off limits to even non tribal members, unfortunately your assumptions about its implications are probably correct.

 

[CJ19]

Based on the amount of tribal land that is off limits to even non tribal members, unfortunately your assumptions about its implications are probably correct.

Thanks. I havent seen any of the "hunting conservation" groups talk about this rule change which is interesting bc it seems like we see chunks of land by the millions of acres becoming inaccessible to public land hunters.

Here is the rule if people are interested.

Federal Register :: Request Access

 

[FAAFO]

Subsistence is a joke in modern times but yet is the biggest threat to AK hunting and fishing. No other state has a subsistence board/program.

 

[yycyak]

If your State has the guts for it, fight back as much as you can.

Canada has a "two-tier" system, dictated mostly by skin colour. If you're in one group, you can hunt year round and kill whatever you want, whenever you want, wherever you want. If you're the other group, you have seasons and tags and limitations etc.

It plays hell on management of game when one group follows rules, bag limits, zone limitations etc, and the other group can ignore it all.

I appreciate that there is nuance here, but there's also reality.