CSSB 81(FIN): "An Act amending the Fish and Game Code by removing 'wolf' from the definition of 'big game'; relating to the classification and taking of wolves; and providing for a harvest incentive on wolves taken in areas designated by the Board of Game."
00CS FOR SENATE BILL NO. 81(FIN) 01 "An Act amending the Fish and Game Code by removing 'wolf' from the 02 definition of 'big game'; relating to the classification and taking of wolves; and 03 providing for a harvest incentive on wolves taken in areas designated by the 04 Board of Game." 05 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 06 * Section 1. AS 16.35 is amended by adding new sections to read: 07 ARTICLE 2. WOLF. 08 Sec. 16.35.210. WOLF. (a) The wolf is an unclassified game animal and a 09 fur bearing animal. The department and the Board of Game may not classify the wolf 10 as a big game animal and shall designate the wolf as an unclassified game animal. 11 (b) A wolf may be taken by any method or means approved for unclassified 12 game or furbearers in the game management unit or subunit in which the wolf is taken. 13 Sec. 16.35.220. HARVEST INCENTIVE. (a) The department shall pay a 14 harvest incentive of $200 for each wolf taken in a harvest incentive area designated
01 by the Board of Game and presented for identification and sealing or marking at an 02 office of the department designated by the commissioner or at a regional office of the 03 department designated by the commissioner. The harvest incentive may be paid only 04 to residents. 05 (b) A person who claims the harvest incentive on a wolf shall present the raw 06 skin with the right foreleg, including ulna and radius bones, attached in a natural state. 07 The department shall remove the right foreleg and seal or mark each skin presented 08 to indicate that the harvest incentive had been paid for that skin. The claimant may 09 retain the skin after it is sealed or marked. The department shall pay the harvest 10 incentive to the claimant within 30 days after presentment of the skin. 11 * Sec. 2. AS 08.54.590(2) is amended to read: 12 (2) "big game" means brown bear, grizzly bear, caribou, moose, black 13 bear, bison, Sitka blacktail deer, elk, mountain goat, musk-ox, [WOLF,] wolverine, 14 mountain or Dall sheep; 15 * Sec. 3. TRANSITION. Notwithstanding AS 16.35.210, as added by sec. 1 of this Act 16 and sec. 4 of this Act, a person who holds an unused big game tag for wolf issued under 17 AS 16.05.340(a) before the effective date of sec. 1 of this Act may take a wolf before 18 January 1, 1996, under big game hunting regulations for wolf as those regulations existed on 19 the day before the effective date of sec. 1 of this Act. 20 * Sec. 4. AS 16.05.340(a)(15)(J) and 16.05.340(a)(21)(K) are repealed.