HB 39: "An Act relating to game management and to regulations of the Board of Game."
00 HOUSE BILL NO. 39 01 "An Act relating to game management and to regulations of the Board of Game." 02 BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF ALASKA: 03 * Section 1. AS 16.05.340(a)(15) is amended to read: 04 (15) Nonresident big game tags 05 A nonresident may not take a big game animal without previously purchasing a 06 numbered, nontransferable, appropriate tag, issued under this paragraph. The tag must 07 be affixed to the animal before leaving the kill site and must remain affixed until the 08 animal is prepared for storage, consumed, or exported. A tag issued but not used for an 09 animal may be used to satisfy the tagging requirement for an animal of any other 10 species for which the tag fee is of equal or less value. 11 (A) Bear, black, each ..................... 450 12 (B) Bear, brown or grizzly, each ............ 1,000 13 (C) Bison, each ......................... 900 14 (D) Caribou, each ....................... 650 15 (E) Deer, each ......................... 300
01 (F) Elk, each .......................... 600 02 (G) Goat, each ......................... 600 03 (H) Moose, each ........................ 800 04 (I) Sheep, each ......................... 850 05 (J) Wolf, each ........................... 60 06 [A NONRESIDENT IS NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE A NONRESIDENT 07 WOLF TAG TO TAKE A WOLF IN A GAME MANAGEMENT UNIT IF 08 THE BOARD OF GAME HAS ADOPTED AN INTENSIVE 09 MANAGEMENT PROGRAM UNDER AS 16.05.255(e) FOR ALL OR A 10 PORTION OF THE GAME MANAGEMENT UNIT.] 11 (K) Wolverine, each ..................... 350 12 (L) Musk oxen, each ................... 2,200 13 * Sec. 2. AS 16.05.340(a)(21) is amended to read: 14 (21) Nonresident alien big game tags 15 (A) Bear, black, each ..................... 600 16 (B) Bear, brown or grizzly, each ............ 1,300 17 (C) Bison, each ........................ 1,300 18 (D) Caribou, each ....................... 850 19 (E) Deer, each ......................... 400 20 (F) Elk, each .......................... 800 21 (G) Goat, each ......................... 800 22 (H) Moose, each ...................... 1,000 23 (I) Musk oxen, each .................... 3,000 24 (J) Sheep, each ....................... 1,100 25 (K) Wolf, each .......................... 100 26 [A NONRESIDENT ALIEN IS NOT REQUIRED TO HAVE A 27 NONRESIDENT ALIEN WOLF TAG TO TAKE A WOLF IN A GAME 28 MANAGEMENT UNIT IF THE BOARD OF GAME HAS ADOPTED AN 29 INTENSIVE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM UNDER AS 16.05.255(e) FOR 30 ALL OR A PORTION OF THE GAME MANAGEMENT UNIT.] 31 (L) Wolverine, each ..................... 500
01 * Sec. 3. AS 16.05.783(a) is amended to read: 02 (a) A person may not shoot or assist in shooting a free-ranging wolf or 03 wolverine the same day that a person has been airborne. However, the Board of Game 04 may authorize a predator control program as part of a game management plan that 05 involves airborne or same day airborne shooting if the board has determined based on 06 information provided by the department 07 [(1) IN REGARD TO AN IDENTIFIED BIG GAME PREY 08 POPULATION UNDER AS 16.05.255(g) THAT OBJECTIVES SET BY THE 09 BOARD FOR THE POPULATION HAVE NOT BEEN ACHIEVED AND THAT 10 PREDATION IS AN IMPORTANT CAUSE FOR THE FAILURE TO ACHIEVE 11 THE OBJECTIVES SET BY THE BOARD, AND THAT A REDUCTION OF 12 PREDATION CAN REASONABLY BE EXPECTED TO AID IN THE 13 ACHIEVEMENT OF THE OBJECTIVES; OR 14 (2)] that a disease or parasite of a predator population 15 (1) [(A)] is threatening the normal biological condition of the predator 16 population; or 17 (2) [(B)] if left untreated, would spread to other populations. 18 * Sec. 4. AS 08.54.750(e); AS 16.05.050(b)(1), 16.05.255(e), 16.05.255(f), 16.05.255(g), 19 and 16.05.255(k) are repealed.