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Welcome The AOC is the official State Association of the National Rifle Association. We work hand in hand with the NRA, doing at the state level, what the NRA does on the national level, to protect your Second Amendment Rights, promote gun safety and encourage participation in the shooting sports.
2010 AOC Annual Meeting The Alaska Outdoor Council’s 2010 Annual Meeting will take place at the Fairbanks Princess Riverside Lodge. (The AK Board of Game will be taking public testimony on Interior proposals in Fairbanks the same weekend.)
AOC Awards Dinner tickets can be purchased ($45.00/singles and $80.00/couples) by emailing Room Reservations at the Fairbanks Princess Riverside Lodge are available at 1-800-777-1725, Ext. 2. AOC room rates are available under code; TNK-L0056 The success of many of AOC’s long term goals such as continued employment of qualified fish and game staff, predator-prey management, well regulated public access to public lands and resources, management of salmon stocks on a sustained yield basis, and enforcement of fish and game regulations all depend on support from our legislators in the legislative process, especially the budget process. AOC staff and board members have had a productive year in 2009 representing fishers, hunters, trappers and members who access Alaska’s outdoors. Numerous agenda topics from past AOC Annual Meetings have been addressed by both State and Federal courts, the State Legislature, or the Boards of Fisheries and Game. The new Obama administration will have a profound effect on all aspects of federal land management. Many topics are still unresolved and may come before state and federal courts and agencies this year. Topics of discussion and items that may need AOC Delegate action;
2010 Delegation Certification form - Click here to download printable form in pdf format. AOC delegates will gather Thursday evening for a “meet & greet” at the newly constructed Tanana Valley Sportsman’s Association indoor rifle range. Friday, all day informative meetings with guest speakers will take place in the Copper Room. Saturday will be the AOC Annual Business meeting for AOC delegates and interested members The AOC Awards Dinner takes place in the Jade Room Saturday night. Room Reservations at the Fairbanks Princess are available at 1-800-777-1725, Ext. 2.
The Federal Subsistence Law is Broken “The Federal Subsistence Law is Broken.” So declared U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar in a video shown at the annual Alaska Federation of Natives (AFN) convention on October 23, 2009. The Secretary announced “The system (implementation of the federal subsistence law) frankly, today is broken” like that was new news. Actually the law was broken the day it was signed into law almost 30 years ago. A review by the Department of Interior is planned. See www.doi.gov/subsistencereview/. Read More...
Senator Kookesh and the Subsistence debate Since troopers caught him red handed with twice his legal limit of salmon, Senator Albert Kookesh of Angoon, has 1) abused his position as an elected state official by unfairly denouncing the State of Alaska, 2) openly disparaged the very laws we trust him to make binding upon us, and 3) unnecessarily and selfishly widened the racial divide between natives and non-natives over hunting and fishing rights. Read More...
Thank you to all the volunteers, donors, and dinner guests who made both our Mat-Su and Fairbanks AOC Banquet & Fundraiser a success again this fall. Generous donations given to AOC by individuals, retailers, outfitters, and corporations fueled guest to bid high and purchase a record number of raffle tickets. Funds raised at these banquets will help assure representation for AOC members a numerous regulatory and policy making meetings in the upcoming year. Continued access to public lands in Alaska for hunting, trapping, fishing, and other forms of recreational use depends on AOC’s participation in the public process. Often times AOC is the only non-government organization advocating for our interests before regulation making bodies. AOC participation does make a difference and your financial contributions makes it possible. We hope to see you again at next years AOC banquets and fundraisers.
Your equal hunting and fishing rights are on trial. The AOC and its sister corporation, the Alaska Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fund (FUND), State of Alaska attorneys are defending bad decisions by the Boards of Fisheries & Game that compromise your rights under Alaska’s state subsistence law – which does not provide a rural priority. Board of Fisheries (BOF): The BOF decided that Chitina SubDistrict dipnetting is “personal use” and does not qualify as “customary and traditional” (C&T) – even though it’s been going on for over a century. So it could not have a state subsistence priority over commercial, personal use, and sport use. Their decision was a thinly disguised approval of a rural priority, which is prohibited by State law, as confirmed by several Alaska Supreme Court decisions. The Chitina Dipnetters Association, Inc. and the FUND have challenged the BOF decision in court at considerable cost. Ahtna Tene Nene’ is supporting the state’s position; Ahtna villagers would rather forfeit their customary and traditional rights to dipnet in the Chitina dipnet fishery than share that right with non-rural Alaskans. (Lawsuit Press Release . Donate to the Chitina Dipnet Lawsuit Fund.) Board of Game: The BOG decided under the state subsistence law to allocate nearly half (300) of the harvestable surplus (800) of Nelchina Herd caribou to Community Harvest Programs (CHP) in 8 communities in and around the Nelchina Basin. Ken Manning challenged the regulation. The FUND joined him by intervention. The Superior Court ruled, in the Preliminary Injunction, the regulation unconstitutional because it did not give all Alaskans equal opportunity to apply for the hunt permit. Thirty permits were then set aside for general public applicants, on the condition they give part of the meat to Ahtna Tene Nene’ for sharing among the communities - and beyond if any meat was left. "Up for Grabs"- Hunting, trapping, fishing, and motorized access to public lands in Alaska are all up for grabs in the current political arena. “Up for grabs” means whoever expends the greatest energy, money, or ingenuity and sticks with it wins. Regulations propagated by Alaska’s administrative staff,
department heads, and appointed Boards have a great influence on whether you
are going to have any fish or game to harvest and where, plus how you will
be allowed to go about harvesting your wildfood source. Federal rules which
apply to 60% of the land in the state have been limiting hunting, trapping,
and fishing opportunities on federal lands through their regulatory
processes for the last two decades. Motorized access on federal lands, plus
lands yet to be transferred to the State or Native Corporations, have seen
major restrictive revisions to open motorized access during that same time
span.
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