FSB Meeting Transcripts April 22 2020
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FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD REGULATORY MEETING VOLUME III TELECONFERENCE - ALASKA April 22, 2020 MEMBERS PRESENT: Anthony Christianson, Chairman Charles Brower Rhonda Pitka Chad Padgett, Bureau of Land Management Greg Siekaniec, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Don Striker, National Park Service Gene Peltola, Bureau of Indian Affairs David Schmid, U.S. Forest Service Ken Lord, Solicitor's Office Recorded and transcribed by: Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 135 Christensen Drive, Second Floor 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 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 Page 258 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Teleconference - 4/22/2020) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 MR. DOOLITTLE: I'll do an initial roll 8 call this morning. First I'll start with the court 9 reporter, Tina, are you with us? 10 11 REPORTER: I am. 12 13 MR. DOOLITTLE: Thank you, Tina. 14 15 I'll start with Fish and Wildlife 16 Service, is Greg Siekaniec on line yet? 17 18 OPERATOR: He is not on line. 19 20 MR. DOOLITTLE: Okay. National Park 21 Service, Don Striker. 22 23 MR. STRIKER: Good morning. 24 25 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good morning, Don. 26 Good to hear you. Bureau of Indian Affairs, Gene 27 Peltola. 28 29 MR. PELTOLA: Eee. 30 31 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good to hear you Gene. 32 Public member Rhonda Pitka, did you make it with us 33 this morning yet. 34 35 MS. PITKA: Good morning. 36 37 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good morning, Rhonda. 38 39 Bureau of Land Management, Chad Padgett 40 with us this morning. 41 42 (No comments) 43 44 MR. DOOLITTLE: We don't have Chad yet. 45 Public member Charlie Brower, are you with us Charlie. 46 47 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: Tom, Charlie's 48 going to be a little late today. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 Page 259 1 MR. DOOLITTLE: He's going to be a 2 little late? 3 4 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: Yeah, he's 5 going to be a little late today, he had something come 6 up and he said he'll chime in when he gets available so 7 we could start without him. 8 9 MR. DOOLITTLE: Okay. U.S. Forest 10 Service, David Schmid. 11 12 MR. SCHMID: Yeah, good morning, Tom, 13 I'm on. 14 15 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good to hear you Dave. 16 And, Tony, I hear you're on. 17 18 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: Yep, I'm on. 19 20 MR. DOOLITTLE: Okay. So essentially 21 waiting for Chad and waiting for Greg to get on, and 22 Charlie we know will be a little late but we have 23 quorum. 24 25 OPERATOR: And this is the Operator, I 26 had received communication that Greg was having a 27 difficult time joining in so I'm going to -- he 28 provided his cell number and I'm going to go ahead and 29 make an outbound call to him and see if we can get him 30 on line. 31 32 MR. DOOLITTLE: Okay, thank you, 33 Operator. 34 35 OPERATOR: You're welcome. 36 37 (Pause) 38 39 MR. DOOLITTLE: While we're waiting, 40 too, I'll see if the State of Alaska, Ben Mulligan is 41 on line. 42 43 MR. MULLIGAN: Good morning, the State 44 is here. 45 46 MR. DOOLITTLE: All right. Ben, we're 47 starting out better than yesterday, that's good. 48 49 I'll go through the Regional Advisory 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 Page 260 1 Chairs. Don Hernandez. 2 3 OPERATOR: And, excuse me, Greg has 4 joined. 5 6 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good morning, Greg. 7 8 MR. SIEKANIEC: Good morning, Tom. 9 10 MR. DOOLITTLE: Yeah, good to have you 11 on. 12 13 Della Trumble, are you on. 14 15 (No comments) 16 17 MR. DOOLITTLE: Nanci Lyon, are you on. 18 19 MS. MORRIS LYON: Yeah, I'm on. 20 21 MR. DOOLITTLE: Hi, Nanci, good 22 morning. 23 24 Yukon Kuskokwim Delta, Alissa Rogers, 25 are you on. 26 27 (No comments) 28 29 MR. DOOLITTLE: I heard some rumblings 30 but no voice. 31 32 Jack Reakoff, are you on. 33 34 MR. REAKOFF: Yes, I am, good morning. 35 36 MR. DOOLITTLE: Hey, good morning, 37 Jack. It looks like your river's going out. 38 39 MR. REAKOFF: The river came -- the 40 side streams started coming in. Now, it's 14 degrees, 41 it was barely above freezing yesterday so everything is 42 starting to freeze back up. 43 44 MR. DOOLITTLE: Yeah, a little 45 reprieve. 46 47 MR. REAKOFF: Yeah, it's good to slow 48 it down. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 Page 261 1 MR. DOOLITTLE: Yeah, no kidding. 2 3 MR. REAKOFF: A lot of the first water 4 that comes down, it goes into the water table, it's got 5 about 600 feet of gravel and it pours into the ground. 6 7 MR. DOOLITTLE: Yeah, at least you want 8 something to soak in. 9 10 MR. REAKOFF: Yeah. Well, we have well 11 here, I can tell the table because my pumps aren't 12 working as hard. 13 14 MR. DOOLITTLE: Well, we could just 15 hope that it won't be a bad flood year. 16 17 MR. REAKOFF: There's a lot of snow in 18 the Yukon basin, there's a lot of snow at the border, 19 which is more unusual. 20 21 MR. DOOLITTLE: Well, we'll see. I'll 22 go down my list here. Have a good morning, Jack. 23 24 MR. REAKOFF: Good morning. I'll be on 25 the call. 26 27 MR. DOOLITTLE: Louis Green. 28 29 (No comments) 30 31 MR. DOOLITTLE: Mike Kramer. 32 33 (No comments) 34 35 MR. DOOLITTLE: No Mike. Sue 36 Entsminger. 37 38 (No comments) 39 40 MR. DOOLITTLE: And last but not least, 41 Gordon Brower. 42 43 (No comments) 44 45 MR. DOOLITTLE: Ken Lord, are you on. 46 47 MR. LORD: Here, yes, Sir. 48 49 MR. DOOLITTLE: All right. Good to 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 Page 262 1 hear you this morning, Ken. 2 3 I'll go back to our Board members, Chad 4 Padgett, are you on? 5 6 (No comments) 7 8 MR. DOOLITTLE: Could we have Staff 9 email Chad and see if he needs assistance this morning. 10 11 (No comments) 12 13 (Pause) 14 15 MR. DOOLITTLE: We'll give a few 16 minutes for Mr. Padgett to get on. But barring that we 17 do have a quorum of the Board, which at the discretion 18 of the Chair, would mean that we could do the public 19 comment period, non-agenda item opportunity that we 20 have for the beginning of the day, Tony. 21 22 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: Excuse me, Tom, 23 what was that? 24 25 MR. DOOLITTLE: It's that if you decide 26 -- we do have a quorum of the Board, if you decide that 27 you'll wait for Chad and Charlie to chime in, as we get 28 towards the proposals, we do have the public comment 29 period, non-agenda items as the first order of business 30 this morning as an opportunity that we provide at the 31 beginning of each day. 32 33 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: Yes. That's 34 where we'll start off this morning and thank you for 35 that. We'll give them two more minutes, Tom, we'll 36 start at 10 after. 37 38 MR. DOOLITTLE: Okay. 39 40 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: So the people 41 on line, if they're on as well, and they're having 42 trouble, just make sure that the public as well as an 43 opportunity as well to get on. So 10 after start, two 44 minutes. 45 46 MR. PADGETT: Hi Tony. Hi Tom. This 47 is Chad, I'm sorry I was having trouble getting in but 48 I'm on now. 49 50 Computer Matrix, LLC Phone: 907-243-0668 135 Christensen Dr., Ste. 2., Anch. AK 99501 Fax: 907-243-1473 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 4/22/2020 FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE BOARD 3 Page 263 1 MR. DOOLITTLE: Good to hear your 2 voice, Chad. Good morning. 3 4 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: There we go. 5 6 MR. DOOLITTLE: Okay. 7 8 CHAIRMAN CHRISTIANSON: Right on. Good 9 morning, everybody. The third day of our Federal 10 Subsistence Board meeting here and welcome everybody 11 back in and glad we're having a little easier time 12 signing on this morning. Good job yesterday to Staff 13 and everybody making it through the portions that we 14 have made it through, we're clipping along pretty 15 decent.