Postmark: Feb 07,96 11:41 AM Delivered: Feb 07,96 11:41 AM
Subject: Subsistence News-2/9/96
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*Alaska’s Lt. Gov. has released a new draft version of her “Alaska Solution to the Subsistence Impasse”. This latest edition is dated 1/31/96.
*Major changes between the two versions are highlighted here:
allow educational/cultural permits for people surrounded by non-subsistence peoples. It would also expand “proxy” hunt system to allow urban subsistence users to hunt for those in rural communities.
Enhance the current management structure to utilize local fish and game advisory committees, Regional Subsistence advisory councils, and Boards of Fish and Game.
State constitutional amendment change to “may” rather than “should” (e.g., the state legislature may grant a subsistence preference for rural residents). And
Congress will revise definition for “reasonable opportunity”. Additionally, the courts will defer to the Fish and Game Boards concerning biological or questions of fact.
*The Southeast Native Subsistence Commission (SENSC) and the Central Council of Tlingit and Haida Indian Tribes of Alaska received $49,000 from the National Park Service for Phase II of the Traditional Place Names Survey in southeast Alaska. Phase II place name maps will be made available for Saxman, Ketchikan, Klukwan, and Haines.
Postmark: Jan 29,96 9:08 AM Delivered: Jan 29,96 9:08 AM
Subject: Subsistence News-2/2/96
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*In 1989, the Alaska State Supreme Court specifically made it clear that the state could no longer link its Subsistence priority to a person’s place of residence. Because of the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA), Alaska’s failure to maintain its long standing rural preference resulted in the Interior & Agriculture Departments taking over subsistence management on all federal public lands in 1990.
*The federal government assumed subsistence management of fish and wildlife on federal public lands, and the state continued management on state and private lands.
*”The challenge is to find common ground that all groups will support, and create a structure to permanently solve the problem.” Alaska Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer.
*The Alaska congressional delegation continues to say that it will not change ANILCA without an Alaskan consensus, no solution will work without widespread support; nor can a plan work that is not a complete package that balances competing interests and links each component to all others.
Postmark: Jan 26,96 9:11 AM Delivered: Jan 26,96 9:11 AM
Subject: Subsistence News-1/26/96
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*”Subsistence is a way of life for many Alaskan’s, and many believe that those residents who need these resources to sustain their lives should have the first priority”, Alaska Lt. Gov. Fran Ulmer.
*Ulmer’s recent draft subsistence “concept plan” is designed to achieve two goals:
To regain state management in order to “protect the legitimate needs of those who subsistence is a way of life”.
“Regain state management on all federal lands of fish and game”.
*Her “concept plan” calls for :
amending the state constitution and recognizing a rural preference for Alaskan subsistence;
Make necessary modifications to state statutes; and
Modify the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act (ANILCA).
*Potential modifications suggested for ANILCA include:
better definition of terms in the law; and
declare that the state statutory and constitutional changes are consistent with the law.
*Barring any furlough, the Southeast Federal Regional Advisory Council (RAC) will meet in Wrangell, February 8-10. Agenda items include: agency reports; emerging & continuing issues; RAC nominations process; Subpart C & D regs changes; etc. For information contact Fred Clark, southeast RAC coordinator at 1-800-586-7895.
