STATE v. MORRY

Nos. S-4632, S-4660.

836 P.2d 358 (1992)

STATE of Alaska and Don Wilson, Appellants and Cross-Appellees, v. Riley T. MORRY and Kwethluk Ira Council, Appellees and Cross-Appellants.

Supreme Court of Alaska.

Rehearing Denied August 13, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephen M. White, Asst. Atty. Gen., Charles E. Cole, Atty. Gen., Juneau, for appellants/cross-appellees.

William E. Caldwell, Fairbanks, Carol A. Daniel, Anchorage, Alaska Legal Services Corp., for appellee/cross-appellant, Morry.

John Sky Starkey, Bethel, for appellee/cross-appellant, Kwethluk IRA Council.

Eric Smith, Anchorage, for Arctic Regional Council and Ninilchik Traditional Council, amici curiae.

Robert T. Anderson, Native Americans Rights Fund, Anchorage, for Kluti Kaah Native Village of Copper Center, amicus curiae.

Michael A.D. Stanley, Juneau, for United Cook Inlet Drift Ass'n, amicus curiae.

Before RABINOWITZ, C.J., and BURKE, MATTHEWS, COMPTON, and MOORE, JJ.


OPINION

RABINOWITZ, Chief Justice.

INTRODUCTION

Alaska's big game tag regulation requires a brown bear hunter to purchase a numbered, nontransferable tag before hunting and then, after taking a bear, affix and keep the tag on the animal until it is stored, consumed, or exported from the state. 5 AAC 92.012(c). Brown bear sealing regulations require that a hunter keep the skin and skull of a bear if taken...

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