Eastern Interior RAC Transcript October 15 2019
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EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 EASTERN INTERIOR FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING PUBLIC MEETING VOLUME I Pike's Landing Fairbanks, Alaska October 15, 2019 9:00 a.m. COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: Sue Entsminger, Chair Andy Bassich Andrew Firmin William Glanz Michael Koehler Timothy McManus Donald Woodruff Charlie Wright Regional Council Coordinator, Zach Stevenson Recorded and transcribed by: Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 135 Christensen Drive, Suite 2 Anchorage, AK 99501 907-243-0668/[email protected] Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 Page 2 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Fairbanks, Alaska - 10/15/2019) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 (Invocation) 8 9 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Call the 10 meeting to order of the Eastern Interior Regional 11 Advisory Council. Now I'm going to ask Andy, he is our 12 Secretary. 13 14 MR. BASSICH: I am? 15 16 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Yep. To do 17 the roll call and that's on -- if you turn the page, 18 Andy, to four, right there. 19 20 MR. BASSICH: Thank you, Madame Chair. 21 Roll call for the Eastern Interior RAC. This is 22 October 12th? 14th? I don't know. Whatever. 15th, 23 sorry. 24 25 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: October 15. 26 27 MR. BASSICH: It's fall time. Sue 28 Entsminger. 29 30 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Here. 31 32 MR. BASSICH: Andrew Firmin. 33 34 MR. FIRMIN: Here. 35 36 MR. BASSICH: Michael J. Koehler. 37 38 MR. KOEHLER: Here. 39 40 MR. BASSICH: William Glanz. 41 42 MR. GLANZ: Here. 43 44 MR. BASSICH: Andrew Bassich here. 45 Robert C. Wright, Sr. 46 47 MR. WRIGHT: Here. 48 49 MR. BASSICH: Charlie Jagow. 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 Page 3 1 MR. JAGOW: Here. 2 3 MR. BASSICH: Donald Woodruff. 4 5 MR. WOODRUFF: Here. 6 7 MR. BASSICH: Timothy McManus. 8 9 MR. MCMANUS: Here. 10 11 MR. BASSICH: So all members are 12 present and we have a quorum, Madame Chair. 13 14 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: All right. 15 We're all present. Looking at our draft agenda. 16 Welcome everyone to the Eastern Interior Regional 17 Advisory Council. We'll go around and introduce us and 18 then we'll go to the audience. We'll start with Bill. 19 20 MR. GLANZ: William Glanz, Central. 21 22 MR. MCMANUS: Tim McManus, Nenana. 23 24 MR. WRIGHT: Robert Wright, Tanana. 25 26 MR. WOODRUFF: Don Woodruff, Eagle. 27 28 MR. FIRMIN: Andrew Firmin, Fort Yukon. 29 30 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Sue 31 Entsminger, Mentasta Pass. 32 33 MR. BASSICH: Andrew Bassich, Eagle. 34 35 MR. KOEHLER: Michael Koehler, Dry 36 Creek. 37 38 MR. JAGOW: Charlie Jagow, Porcupine. 39 40 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay. We'll 41 start with Katya. 42 43 MS. WESSELS: Katya Wessels, OSM. 44 45 MR. KRON: Tom Kron, OSM. 46 47 MS. MCDAVID: Brooke McDavid, Division 48 of Subsistence with ADF&G. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 Page 4 1 MR. HAWKALUK: Good morning. I'm 2 Nathan Hawkaluk, Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. 3 4 MR. MATHEWS: Vince Mathews with 5 Arctic, Kanuti and Yukon Flats, Fairbanks. 6 7 MS. LINNELL: Karen Linnell, Ahtna 8 Intertribal Resource Commission. 9 10 MS. SMELCER: Shirley Smelcer, Ahtna 11 Intertribal Resource Commission. 12 13 MR. MASCHMANN: Gerald Maschmann with 14 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Fairbanks. 15 16 MS. STUBY: Lisa Stuby, Alaska 17 Department of Fish and Game, Sport Fish Division, 18 Fairbanks. 19 20 MS. CARROLL: Holly Carroll, Yukon 21 summer season manager for Fish and Game. 22 23 MR. BUE: Fred Bue, Fish and Wildlife 24 Service, Fairbanks. 25 26 MS. MAAS: Lisa Maas, wildlife 27 biologist with OSM. 28 29 DR. BATH: Alistair Bath, Memorial 30 University of Newfoundland, Canada. 31 32 MR. BURCH: Mark Burch, Department of 33 Fish and Game. 34 35 MR. MULLIGAN: Ben Mulligan, Alaska 36 Department of Fish and Game. 37 38 MS. CELLARIUS: Barbara Cellarius, 39 Cultural Anthropologist and Subsistence Coordinator at 40 Wrangell-St. Elias National Park and Preserve, Copper 41 Center. 42 43 MS. OKADA: Marcy Okada, Subsistence 44 Coordinator for Yukon-Charlie Rivers National 45 Preserve. 46 47 MR. HARRIS: Frank Harris, fisheries 48 biologist, OSM. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 Page 5 1 DR. REAM: Good morning. Joshua Ream, 2 Regional Subsistence Program Manager for the National 3 Park Service. 4 5 MS. BORBA: Bonnie Borba, Fall Season 6 Research Biologist for Alaska Department of Fish and 7 Game. 8 9 MS. GLEASON: Christy Gleason, Fall 10 Season Assistant Manager for Fish and Game in 11 Fairbanks. 12 13 MR. SMITH: My name is David Smith, 14 Arctic Village Second Chief. 15 16 MR. PETER: Evon Peter, Arctic Village 17 and Native Village of (in Gwich'in). 18 19 MR. GILBERT: Galen Gilbert, current 20 First Chief of Arctic Village. 21 22 MS. STEVENS: Carrie Stevens, UAF. 23 24 MS. GARNETT: Tonya Garnett, Native 25 Village of Venetie Tribal Government, Arctic Village 26 Council. 27 28 MS. TRITT: Shayna Tritt, Arctic 29 Village Council. 30 31 MS. YATLIN: Tiffany Yatlin, Tribal 32 Administer for Arctic Village Council. 33 34 MS. GEMMILL: Hi. I'm Margorie 35 Gemmill. I'm Chief of Native Village of Venetie Tribal 36 Government. 37 38 MS. JAMES: Sarah James, Arctic Village 39 and Arctic Refuge. 40 41 MR. LORENZINI: Tim Lorenzini, Tetlin 42 National Wildlife Refuge. 43 44 MR. FLAGEN: Ross Flagen, Tetlin 45 National Wildlife Refuge. 46 47 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Welcome 48 everyone. Now I'll go online and have anyone online 49 please introduce yourself. 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 Page 6 1 MR. LIND: Good morning, Madame Chair, 2 Council members. Orville Lind from the Office of 3 Subsistence Management. 4 5 MR. JOLY: Good morning. This is Kyle 6 Joly with the National Park Service. 7 8 MS. CRAVER: Good morning. This is Amy 9 Craver with Denali National Park and Preserve. 10 11 MS. JALLEN: Good morning. Deena 12 Jallen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Yukon River 13 Summer Season Assistant Manager. 14 15 MS. DAMBERG: Good morning. This is 16 Carol Damberg, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, 17 Interagency Staff Committee member and Regional 18 Subsistence Coordinator. 19 20 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Anyone else 21 online? 22 23 MS. STICKWAN: Gloria Stickwan with 24 Ahtna Corporation. 25 26 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Anyone else? 27 28 MS. STICKWAN: Gloria Stickwan, Ahtna 29 Corporation. 30 31 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Oh, okay. I 32 thought I missed it. 33 34 MS. SCOTT: Sarah Scott, Donlin 35 (indiscernible). 36 37 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Anyone else 38 online? 39 40 MS. WORKER: This is Suzanne Worker 41 with the Office of Subsistence Management. 42 43 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Anyone else? 44 45 MR. SHARP: Good morning. This is Dan 46 Sharp with BLM in Anchorage. I just joined. 47 48 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay. I 49 assume we got everyone. 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 EASTERN INTERIOR SUBSISTENCE RAC MEETING 10/15/2019 EASTERN INTERIOR RAC MEETING 1 Page 7 1 I forgot my coordinator. Introduce yourself. 2 3 MR. STEVENSON: Uvlaalluataq. Atiga 4 Zach Stevenson. Good morning. My name is Zach 5 Stevenson. I'm the Subsistence Council Coordinator for 6 the Eastern Interior, Northwest Arctic Regions. 7 8 Thank you, Madame Chair. 9 10 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: OSM is 11 changing hats here a lot lately. Welcome everyone. 12 Now I know review and adopt the agenda is next, but as 13 I was sitting here looking at this I'm thinking our 14 reports should be next and I'll tell you why. Some 15 things that I would report on would reflect the agenda. 16 Do you guys want to do it that way or should I just 17 tell you that we're going to be flexible with the 18 agenda? 19 20 MR. BASSICH: I think it's probably 21 good for you to manage the meeting in the way that 22 makes the most sense, Sue. You probably have some more 23 information than many of us Council members have. I'm 24 quite happy with leaving it up to you to move things 25 around and be flexible on the agenda. 26 27 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay. I 28 really feel like we should do our reports next and then 29 take up the review and adopt the agenda. So if that's 30 okay with the Council members. 31 32 (Nods affirmatively) 33 34 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Bill, do you 35 want to start. 36 37 MR.