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Welcome The Alaska Outdoor Council!
We are dedicated to the preservation of outdoor pursuits in Alaska - hunting, fishing, trapping, firearms ownership, and public access - and conservation of the habitats upon which they depend. We are an association of clubs and individual members.
Together with our sister organizations – the Alaska Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund, and the Alaska Trust Fund - we work through advocacy, education and research to promote responsible outdoor recreation, conserve our natural resources, and protect Alaskans’ rights to enjoy our great outdoors.
Your help is vital to the success of our work. We invite you to Join Us as a Member or Sustaining Business Member, to Volunteer your time, or to submit a Donation. Your participation will help to ensure the preservation of our natural resources for the benefit of all.
 Alaska Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fund
AFWCF Mission: To assist the Alaska Outdoor Council in perpetuating Alaska's outdoor heritage of hunting, fishing, trapping, public access, and gun ownership.
Vision: To utilize education, research, and in limited cases, litigation, to perpetuate Alaska's outdoor heritage of hunting, fishing, trapping, public access, and gun ownership. Read More... Support our work with your donation!
 The Alaska
Trust Fund (ATF)
The Alaska Trust Fund or "Trust" was established in 1999 in response to our members citing a need for permanent and long-term unding of our operations. Similar to other trust funds, the principal or "trust" is protected from invasion in perpetuity. Every dollar you invest in the Trust stays there - and only the interest it generates can be used for operations. Read more... Donate!
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You are invited to the
Alaska Outdoor Council
2012 Annual Meeting & Awards Banquet
February 3-4th, 2012
Annual Meeting will take place in Juneau at the Centennial Hall
- Friday Feb. 3rd (8:30am – 5:00pm) -Informative meetings with guest speakers will take place at Centennial Hall.
- Friday Feb. 3rd night starting at 6:00pm - The AOC Awards Dinner in Ballroom 3 at Centennial Hall.
- Saturday Feb. 4th (8:30am- 5:00pm) - The AOC Annual Business meeting for AOC delegates and interested members.
Topics of discussion and items that may need AOC delegate action include;
- Continued litigation supporting the “Common Use” clauses enshrined in the Alaska State Constitution.
- Federal land agencies encroachment on state fish & game management and allocation.
- Regulated motorized access to public lands, waters and resources.
- State land use classifications.
- The NPFMC halibut Catch-Share Plan.
- Creation of Sport Fish Guide licensing program.
- Legislative support for General Fund expenditures to ADF&G, DNR, and AK. Wildlife Troopers.
- Financial sustainability of Alaska Outdoor Council/Alaska Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund.
- Litigation challenging the AK Board of Game’s attempt to create two classes of subsistence uses.
- Currently introduced legislation affecting outdoor activities.
Each AOC member club has the opportunity to name one official delegate, either a club member or a proxy, and, if desired, an alternate delegate to represent them at the Annual Business Meeting on Saturday, Feb. 4th. In addition to reports of AOC activities this past year, the agenda includes election of AOC directors, action on any proposed changes to Bylaws, Policies or Resolutions, and advice to the Board on upcoming issues. Delegate forms and Club membership forms are on the Clubs page. Click Here
Hotel Accomadations are available at Prospector Hotel 1-800-331-2711 for $95.00 per night,
just mention Alaska Outdoor Council to get the rate. http://www.prospectorhotel.com/
Anyone with an Alaska Airlines Mileage plan can get the constituency fares emailed to them.
This get you 30% off the normal airfare.
Awards Banquet Tickets can be purchased ($55.00/singles and $100.00/couples)
by emailing:
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or calling Pam Iverson (907) 260-5723, Bill Iverson (907) 244-6285 or Rod Arno (907) 841-6849.
Tables of 8, are available for $600, $1000, and $1500 levels.
Door prizes, Silent Auctions, and other drawings.
Limited Seating so get your tickets early.
Donations (either new or old items) may be dropped off to:
Western Auto & Marine 5165 Glacier Hwy. Juneau, AK 99801 Attn.: Dave or Carla Phone: 907-780-4909
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2nd Annual Anchorage Banquet & Fundraiser
Saturday night, February 18th starting at 4:30pm - Anchorage Egan Center.
Fabulous Dinner @ 6:30 pm
Tickets can be purchased @$65.00 per person
by emailing:
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or calling Gary Stevens (907) 229-4710
Pam Iverson (907) 260-5723, Bill Iverson (907) 244-6285
Reserved Tables of 10 are available for $750, and $1500 levels
(You get free raffle tickets with each seat at both levels).
Please Click here to view and print the PDF form
Door prizes, Silent and Live Auctions, Desert Auctions with surprise drawing.
A marvelous meal will share attention with a featured speaker to be announced.
Limited Seating so get your tickets early.
Door Prize of $500.00 worth of Raffle Tickets
Tickets purchased by January 28th will be entered into a drawing
for $200.00 in Raffle tickets.
Delta Bison Hunt Permit Raffle
Tickets available at:
Trustworthy Hardware & Fishing
in Soldotna
Impact Area Guns
in Soldotna
Barney's Sports Chalet on West Northern Lights Blvd
in Anchorage
Weld Air Alaska, 340 E. Centaur Ave.
on the Knik-Goose Bay Road in Wasilla.
Frontier Outfitters / Sentry Hardware
at the Gavora Mall in Fairbanks
Click here to see Poster and rules...
Alaska Fish & Wildlife Conservation Fund
& Alaska Outdoor Council
Have set up a donation link on their website to make donations, called the:
“Access Assertion Fund”
It is Tax Deductible
Checks must be made out to AFWCF to be tax deductable.
For credit card donations Click on the Donations tab and choose “Access Assertion Fund”.
The donations will go toward:
RS 2477 Access Legal Defense
For Carey Mills’ Legal Fees & other access related litigation.
Carey says:
When I began this fight over a RS 2477 rights-of-way to access my state mining claims; I thought I was that one in a million person who was having access problems. After the lawsuit became public I started receiving calls from other people throughout Alaska, who were having the same type of problem.
“Federal governmental agencies denying that RS 2477 rights-of-way exist”
This lawsuit seeks only to require Federal Agencies and others to recognize and accept one of over six hundred (600) RS 2477 rights-of-way listed in Alaska Statute AS 19.30.400. Yes that’s right! The Alaska Legislature and Governor passed this law back in 1998.
This case will potentially set legal precedence for all Alaskans and the General Public who want to use those other RS 2477 rights-of-way. Because this case will be the first to actually fully litigate the RS 2477 rights-of-way issue, since the 1998 legislative enactment of AS 19.30.400, your financial support for this RS 2477 Access Legal Defense Fund is vital.
If you believe that Alaskans and the General Public should have RS 2477 rights-of-way to Public Lands for hunting, fishing, trapping, mushing, snow machining, ATV riding and mining, then please donate what you can afford, through this link.
To see full story click here (Miners dig in deep for land access battle)
AHTNA PREFERENCE FOR NELCHINA CARIBOU RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL
By Mike Kramer, Attorney for AOC
On July 9, 2010, Judge Carl Bauman ruled that the Board of Game could not provide guaranteed tags for Nelchina caribou to AHTNA villagers. In 2009, with the advice and consent of Alaska’s Attorney General, the Board of Game authorized sweeping changes to how moose and caribou hunts were managed in Unit 13, the Nelchina Basin. These changes were designed to provide eight AHTNA Indian villages with what the Board had identified as its goal of “virtually guaranteeing” a caribou permit every year to AHTNA village residents.
Read More...
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