SENATOR MILLER announced SB 325 (TAKING OF ANTLERLESS MOOSE) to be e up for consideration. BARBARA BORBRIDGE, Aide to Senator Lincoln, testified that SB 325 repeals AS 16.05.780. If enacted there would be no change in the antlerless moose hunt from year to year. No action is required by the Board of Game. Advisory Committees would not have to meet to address this. SB 325 streamlines the process to allow for hunting opportunities, it protects the resource at a savings to the state. DAVE KELLEYHOUSE, Director, Division of Wildlife, said when AS 16.05.780 was enacted, the biologist at that time really believed that wolf and bear predation was having no impact on moose populations. But they were proved wrong and that prompted this legislation. This has become a rubber stamp issue by the Board of Game, but it is very time consuming and costly, taking a day or more for the Board to go through reauthorizing every one of the hunts every year. MR. KELLEYHOUSE said this morning the Alaska Board of Game passed a resolution supporting this bill. Number 259 TIM OSBORNE, Galena area biologist, said he was representing the Middle Yukon Fish and Game Advisory Committee. He said the Advisory Committee represents four villages and there is travel between them whenever a meeting is held. This year there would not have been a meeting this spring other than for the fact they had to come together and vote to have the current antlerless moose hunt to continue. They would have lost it otherwise. They, therefore, strongly support this bill. GEORGE COVEL, Chairman, Copper River and Prince William Sound Advisory Committee, supported SB 325. SENATOR MILLER said they received phone calls from two people in Anchorage, Mr. Stevens, Vice Chairman, Anchorage Fish and Game Advisory Committee, and Mr. Wright, who oppose the bill. He intended to give them a chance to register their opposition to the bill.