15 September 2004, 08:57
JeffPRe: Harrassment by Feds and State in Tok/Chicken area
My experiences have been positive too.I could not get
in touch with the trooper in Anc to seal my sheep horns on the weekend.I called the trooper in Girdwood,she told me
she could not do it as she had no tags but she would find
someone who would.Sure enough about 30 mins later Trooper
Conners drove down from Palmer and sealed my horns so I
could catch my flight Sunday AM. He was very accomadating
and just check to see all was right.No problems no hassles.
I'm not a great world hunter...but all the game wardens I
have encountered have all been easy to deal with.
Jeff
17 September 2004, 06:04
Yaoughtachoketsturm
State F&G, yeah, never had a bad experience with those folks. This guy was a trooper and was clueless about the rules in 20E, told us it was bull only for residents which was Bull Sxxx. Its been either sex for the last couple years. Then had our meat in the sun with the flies on it for 45 minutes while he was trying to make his case and bait us into saying we left meat up there, which we didn't, so he could fill his ticket quota. Beware of a trooper hanging around Chicken and you got a caribou rack in sight. I felt harrassed.
bearclaw
08 September 2004, 20:34
KMuleinAKSounds like that jerkbait swanson is trying to prove a point; should have been neutered when he was born.
09 September 2004, 05:27
scwIn the two weeks I spent in AK this summer, I was disgusted with the F&G cops up there. Even the Highway patrol, which I think can act as fish-cops(?) were a bunch of ass-holes.
We had one guy park his ass next to us and announce that he was a cop, and if anyone was setting hooks for their kids to reel in, they would be caught. Anyone that brings fish's gills out of the water to release a hook, that fish is considered yours and can't be thrown back. If it was snagged, that means you kept a snagged fish and he would get you for that too.
Anyway, after 2 weeks of putting up with the worst fish-cops I've ever seen, I was happy to go back to Utah and Montana cops. As bad as they are, they ain't AK fish-cops.
10 September 2004, 06:46
huntsternorthTry moose hunting in the lower Koyokuk region. It's legal, political, and cultural warfare in that place.
Both state and federal wildlife officials vie to ensure total and complete harassment of all non-local hunters in the area. It's all part of their "keep the Natives from getting restless" act.
The place has some of the highest moose densities on the planet, but considering how the officials behave, you'd think that the moose were going extinct. All you have to do is stop your boat, walk 1/4 mile, call, and harvest your bull. It's really not a hunt; it's a harvest.
But if the locals don't get their moose by racing up and down the rivers (hoping to catch one on the banks), they cry that there's no more moose.
It's so apparent what's going on the officials can't deny it when it's pointed out to them, so they use the excuse, "Hey, we have to live with these people up here".
It's disgusting.