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Offline Sourdough

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Locking up the North Slope
« on: May 18, 2007, 05:33:29 PM »
This is another move by the people of the North Slope to limit hunters into that area of the state.  This along with the restriction of not being able to shoot a gun within five miles of the pipeline corridore, or taking a motorized vehicle off the haul road, even though roads and trails exist.  The people that live there are exempt from these rules.  The North Slope Caribou herd has prospered since the pipeline was put into place.  The herd has grown tenfold, there is no shortage of Caribou.  Their previous restrictions concentrate everyone to a small corridore along the haul road, now they intend to profit from those restrictions, and to place further restrictions on state users.   

This was in an e-mail I recieved today.  It was sent out by the North Slope Borough.  The North Slope Borough (NSB) also said that parking for more than 6 hours will be considered camping and violaters will be cited.



The NSB Planning Department, Permitting & Zoning Division is the entity that is administering the process

for acquiring a permit to camp along the haul road within the North Slope Borough boundaries.  The Chandlar

area along the Dalton Highway up into the oilfields is within the North Slope Borough boundaries.

 

The permit fee for campers is $200.00

The permit fee for Guides/Transporters/Outfitters is $2000.00

 

The North Slope Borough (NSB) has always had this authority through the municipal codes of Title 19,

and has decided to require a permit due to the fact that competition has begun to occur for the natural

resources that are within the NSB boundaries.

 

You may contact Martha I. Falk at the email address listed below, or call her at (907) 852-0440x226.  If she is not

available please contact any of the other persons listed either by email or by calling (907) 852-0440, regarding information for the permitting process for the Dalton Highway

 

martha.falk@north-slope.org

gordon.brower@north-slope.org

susan.kittick-atos@north.slope.org

Jonathan.AikenJr@north-slope.org

roy.varner@north-slope.org

Waska.WilliamsJr@north-slope.org

 

Once an application is filled out you can mail the application and the permit fee (check) to the following address:

 

North Slope Borough Planning Department

P.O. Box 69

Barrow, Alaska    99723
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #1 on: May 18, 2007, 05:50:33 PM »
By the way, several members of the Fairbanks A/C is calling for all the other A/Cs to fight this.  And all the user groups within the state.  These restrictions will hurt everyone wanting to go to the North Slope along the Haul Road.

Also if I drive my truck to Chandalar Lake, unload my ultralite, and take my buddy back to a beautiful lake west of the Haul Road for a couple days of hunting.  Where we each should get a couple of nice Caribou.  Then I will have to shuttle him and the meat out making several trips.  Will I be considered a camper, or a transporter.
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2007, 06:22:52 AM »
I always thought that restrictions like this for out of staters were a good economy booster... but when you are restricting everybody, even the not so far away weekender, you are taking your power and greed a little too far.  I guess we might have to start chasing those western caribou herds...
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2007, 09:16:11 PM »
There was an article in today's paper that the NSB is going to take another hard look at this.  They are going to back off for the time being to check out their legal questions.
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2007, 10:53:38 PM »
Thanks for the heads-up.  We have to fight this.  If they go through with it, we should push our legislators to cut State funds to the NSB and see how they like that.  As we both know, the outsiders' hunting pressure is negligible.  I've never heard of anywhere else in the state where staying anywhere overnight would incur a $200 camping fee.  Do you have any idea what DNR's take is on this?
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #5 on: May 26, 2007, 03:37:42 AM »
I think if you stay ad the edgewater hotel in Seward in early July you incur about a $200 camping fee. ;D
-But they don't let you shoot caribou out the window.
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #6 on: May 26, 2007, 05:53:36 AM »
I don't understand the problem?  Isn't this public land we are talking about?  If so the people on the North Slope can shut up or move.  If I don't have to pay a tresspass fee or camping fee in Colorado or Wyoming on public ground why should I have to pay in Alaska?
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Re: Locking up the North Slope
« Reply #7 on: May 26, 2007, 08:25:38 AM »
SDS-GEN:  This is something we have been fighting ever since Carter signed ANILCA.  The people on the North Slope consider the entire North Slope their's.  They don't want anyone else there.  When they got the restriction against shooting guns sithin five miles of the pipeline, they never dreamed that it would become an Archer's paradise, and the volume of people that would show up shooting arrows.  They are the ones that are responsiable for the restriction of not being able to shoot game within five miles of the pipeline.  (Except locals they can shoot one standing under the pipe legally).  Also not being able to drive off the pipeline corridor with any type of motorized vehicle (again except them, they can drive into, outof, or across, since they live there).  The land along the pipeline is both Federal and State owned.  It's another way for them to place more restrictions on outsiders using that area.  They were in a panic last year when Senator Seekins tried to open up the trails they use to the public.  These restrictions are only for the area above the Yukon River.

The most ironic thing is that they don't even hunt the herd that migrates along the pipeline.  They hunt a herd west of there. 
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