Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 3 - Game › Chapter 92 - Statewide Provisions › Article 5 - Intensive Management and Predator Control › 5 AAC 92.110 - Control of predation by wolves

Current through May 31, 2024
(a) Notwithstanding
				  any other provision in this title, the commissioner or the commissioner's
				  designee may, in accordance with this section, and consistent with any
				  applicable predation control implementation plan adopted by the board, conduct
				  a wolf population reduction or wolf population regulation program. The
				  commissioner or the commissioner's designee, including contracted agents of
				  other governmental agencies, may reduce wolf populations in an efficient
				  manner, by any means, but as safely and humanely as practical, including the
				  use of a helicopter.
(b) Repealed
				  3/10/2006.
(c) Repealed
				  10/1/93.
(d) Repealed
				  3/10/2006.
(e) After the board has
				  adopted a predation control implementation plan, the commissioner may, at any
				  time during the period for which the plan is in effect, determine whether to
				  implement the plan and may, by regulation, amend the plan to apply additional
				  restrictions in light of circumstances existing at the time of
				  implementation.
(f) If the board
				  authorizes issuance of public aerial shooting permits or public land and shoot
				  permits as a method of wolf removal, the commissioner may, at any time while
				  the plan is in effect, implement land and shoot or aerial shooting by order of
				  the department. A permit may be issued under
				  5 AAC 92.039. The department may monitor programs
				  involving the use of aircraft from the air.
(g) To the extent practicable, a person
				  taking wolf under a wolf population reduction or wolf population regulation
				  program must retrieve the wolf so that maximum economic and scientific value
				  may be realized from each wolf.
(h)
				  Poison may not be used to take a wolf, except that carbon monoxide cartridges
				  may be used to humanely euthanize wolf young in the den in areas under a
				  predation control implementation plan.
(i) The killing of wolf young in the den,
				  commonly known as "denning", is prohibited, unless the commissioner authorizes
				  the killing of wolf young in the den in areas under a predation control
				  implementation plan.
(j) Repealed
				  5/16/2010.
(k) The commissioner
				  shall stop the taking of wolves under the implementation plan and, if
				  necessary, stop other taking in the affected area for the remainder of the
				  regulatory year, when plan objectives adopted by the board for that area have
				  been reached for that year.
(l)
				  This section applies only to a specific program designed to reduce or regulate
				  wolf populations for the purpose of managing wild prey populations. This
				  section does not apply to other responsibilities of the commissioner, such as
				  activities relating to
(1) animal
				  propagation;
(2) scientific
				  studies;
(3) stocking conducted
				  under AS
				  16.05.050;
(4) issuance of permits for collection of
				  animals under
				  AS
				  16.05.340(b);
(5) the isolated taking of animals necessary
				  for immediate protection of wildlife populations or the general public or
				  property under
				  AS
				  16.05.020; or
(6) issuance of any other department permits
				  authorized by state or federal law.