The Wrangell sentinel., 1934-01-05

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INDIAN TRAPPERS
A total of s29,75445 will be ex-
pended in the next six weeks by the
Alaska Game Commission in re-
stocking game and fur-bearing ami
mails in Southeast and Southwest Al
aska, it was announced by H. W.
Terhune prior to his departure for
Seattle and Washington to speed up
the Commissions public works con-
struction program, reports the Ju-
mean Empire.
OF the tota.. $4,000 will be paid
directly for labor, which will con-
sist mainly of native Indian trap
pers. Eighty-six of them will be en-
ployed under the supervision of
eight whites, mostly members of the
Commissions staff assigned to the
" ork.
Wardens Will Direct
Nardens Frank Dufresne and Ho-
mer Jewell will have direct charge
of the program under general super
vision from local executive officers,
Mr.. Terhune said. The former, who
has been assigned to the Southwest
Alaska projects, left on the steamer
Northwestern for Seward and 9TH
er points TO get the work started
Mr.. Jewell will organize camps in
The southern end of this district and
II. h. Sarber, Petersburg big game
guide and trapper, will go to Juneau
TO handle the work there.
Marten, snowshoe rabbits, red fox,
goat and deer transporting are pro-
vided for in the program. Four
camps will be established in South
east Alaska and either four or eight
IN southwest Alaska, depending on
conditions.
Four S. E. Alaska Camps
1ufee projects have been pro-
grammed in Southeast Alaska. Two
camps of six men each will work
between juneau and Petersburg and
the Il men will be expert trappers
picked from those two towns and
Wrangell. Two camps will be es-
tablished in the vicinity of Ketchi-
kan and the II men for them select
ed from that district.
trapping marten on the mainland
and transplanting them on the larg-
er outlying islands, chiefly Chicha-
gof and Baranof on which squirrels
have been previously planted as a
source of food for such furbearers.
The squirrel planting project, Mr..
Terhune said, has worked out ad-
mirably. Mountain goat will be
transplanted from the mainland to
Admiralty. Chichagof and Baranof
Islands, if weather conditions per-
nit. Deer will be taken in South
east Alaska and taken to Kodiak
Island and possibly other areas con-
sfderd favorable for their breeding
and range.
Southwest Alaska Work
The exact locations of the South
west Alaska camps were not deter
mined at Juneau, Mr. Dufresne de-
ferring that until he reaches the
6 ound. Some of them will be To-
ca..I along the Alaska Railroad,
between Seward and Anchorage
where snowshoe rabbits will be
trapped and transported to the Ko-
diak-Afognak Island group and larg
er islands on the Aleutian chain.
The object is to build up a stable
food supply for furbearers and, also,
to give the local residents another
food source.
Work Ends Feb. Is
All of the work, Mr.. Terhune
pointed out, must be completed by
February Is under present Admin
istration plans. Congress has the au-
thority and may extend it beyond
that date. If it does extend and ex-
pand the Civil Works Administra-
ton the Commission will apply for
additional funds to continue these
and other projects.
Mr.. Terhune sailed on The Alaska
for Seattle He will remain there
for few days and then proceed to
Washington if it is necessary to
speed up final preparations for the
construction of vessels, station