1 EASTERN INTERIOR ALASKA FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE 2 REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING 3 4 PUBLIC MEETING 5 6 7 VOLUME I 8 9 Pikes Waterfront Hotel 10 Fairbanks, Alaska 11 October 22, 2015 12 9:00 a.m. 13 14 15 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: 16 17 Sue Entsminger, Chair 18 Andy Bassich 19 Andrew Firmin 20 William Glanz 21 Will Koehler 22 Rhonda Pitka 23 Virgil Umphenour 24 Larry Williams 25 Donald Woodruff 26 27 28 29 Regional Council Coordinator, Eva Patton 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 Recorded and transcribed by: 40 41 Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 42 135 Christensen Drive, Suite 2 43 Anchorage, AK 99501 44 907-243-0668/[email protected] 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Fairbanks, Alaska - 10/22/2015) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Good morning, 8 everyone. And once again, the Eastern Interior 9 Regional Council. We're going in session at 8:36 a.m., 10 October 22nd. 11 12 Roll call. 13 14 MR. FIRMIN: Good morning, everybody. 15 Okay. 16 17 I'll start with our roll call with Ms. 18 Susan Enstminger. 19 20 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Here. 21 22 MR. FIRMIN: Andrew Firmin is present. 23 24 Larry Williams, Senior. 25 26 MR. WILLIAMS: Present. 27 28 MR. FIRMIN: Lester Erhart. He's en 29 route. 30 31 MS. PATTON: Madame Chair and Council, 32 we have just heard from Lester yesterday. He is 33 recovering from some teeth surgery. He's hoping to be 34 able to call in by teleconference to connect this 35 afternoon on the proposals relevant to him. 36 37 Thank you. 38 39 MR. FIRMIN: Then I'll put him down as 40 excused. Andrew Bassich. 41 42 MR. BASSICH: Here. 43 44 MR. FIRMIN: Rhonda Pitka. 45 46 MS. PITKA: Here. 47 48 MR. FIRMIN: Will Koehler. 49 50 MR. KOEHLER: Here. 2 1 MR. FIRMIN: Donald Woodruff. 2 3 MR. WOODRUFF: Here. 4 5 MR. FIRMIN: Virgil Umphenour. 6 7 MR. UMPHENOUR: Here. 8 9 MR. FIRMIN: And Bill Glanz. 10 11 MR. GLANZ: Here. 12 13 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: You made it. 14 15 MR. GLANZ: Yes. I'm here. 16 17 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Good job, 18 Bill. 19 20 MR. GLANZ: I'm here. 21 22 (Laughter) 23 24 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Okay. All 25 right. If we could all stand. I've asked Larry to do 26 an invocation. 27 28 (Invocation) 29 30 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Thank you, 31 Larry. Call the meeting to order. And welcome, 32 everyone. We'll start with introductions by the 33 Council Members. 34 35 Rhonda. 36 37 MS. PITKA: Good morning. I'm Rhonda 38 Pitka from the Village of Beaver. I'm the First Chief 39 of the Village. Thanks. 40 41 MR. KOEHLER: Will Koehler, Wrangell- 42 St. Elias Region. 43 44 MR. WILLIAMS: Larry Williams, Venetie. 45 46 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: I'm Sue 47 Enstminger from Mentasta Pass. 48 49 MR. UMPHENOUR: I'm Virgil Umphenour 50 from North Pole. 3 1 MR. FIRMIN: I'm Andrew Firmin from 2 Fort Yukon. 3 4 MR. WOODRUFF: Don Woodruff, Eagle. 5 6 MR. GLANZ: Bill Glanz, Central. 7 8 MR. BASSICH: Andy Bassich, Eagle. 9 10 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Okay. I just 11 have to say Virgil, you need one of those headsets like 12 Don has and you'll hear better. Just joking. 13 14 MR. UMPHENOUR: Yeah, okay. 15 16 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: I don't know. 17 He has his own. 18 19 (Laughter) 20 21 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: So if we 22 could introduce yourselves from the audience. I guess 23 we'll turn one mic on and go around the room. 24 25 You can start. 26 27 MR. MCKEE: Hi. I'm Chris McKee. I'm 28 the Wildlife Division Chief for the Office of 29 Subsistence Management. 30 31 MS. HOWARD: Good morning. I'm Amy 32 Howard. I'm Policy Coordinator for the Office of 33 Subsistence Management. Thanks everyone for being 34 here. 35 36 MS. MAAS: Lisa Maas, Wildlife 37 Biologist in the Office of Subsistence Management. 38 39 MS. KENNER: And Pippa Kenner, 40 Anthropologist in the Office of Subsistence Management. 41 42 MS. TRAINOR: Hi. My name is Alida 43 Trainor. I'm a Subsistence Resource Specialist at the 44 Alaska Department of Fish and Game here in Fairbanks. 45 46 MR. WELLS: I'm Jeff Wells, Assistant 47 Area Biologist in Tok. 48 49 MS. GLEASON: And Christy Gleason, 50 Yukon Area Assistant Manager for fall season with the 4 1 Alaska Department of Fish and Game. 2 3 MR. CHEN: Good morning, Council 4 Members. My name is Glenn Chen. I'm the Subsistence 5 Division Chief for the Bureau of Indian Affairs. 6 7 MR. PETER: Hello. I'm Buddy Peter. 8 I'm a Tribal Member from Venetie, Alaska. 9 10 MR. STEVENS: Good morning, everyone. 11 My name is Ben Stevens. I'm from Stevens Village. I 12 work with the Tanana Chiefs with the Hunting and 13 Fishing Task Force. 14 15 MS. FOX: Good morning. I'm Joanna 16 Fox. I'm the Deputy Refuge Manager for the Arctic 17 National Wildlife Refuge here in Fairbanks. 18 19 MR. BERENDZEN: Hello. Steve 20 Berendzen. I'm Yukon Flats Refuge Manager. 21 22 MR. BUE: Good morning. Fred Bue, Fish 23 and Wildlife Service, Yukon River Management Fisheries. 24 25 MR. HAVENER: Good morning, everyone. 26 I'm Jeremy Havener. I'm the Refuge Subsistence 27 Coordinator for Koyukuk, Nowitna, and Innoko National 28 Wildlife Refuges. 29 30 MR. HONEA: Good morning, everyone. 31 Don Honea, Junior, Ruby AC. 32 33 MS. LENART: Good morning. Beth 34 Lenart, Alaska Department of Fish and Game Wildlife 35 Biologist from Yukon Flats and Eastern North Slope. 36 37 MR. CAMERON: Good morning. My name is 38 Matt Cameron. I'm a technician on Yukon-Charley in the 39 Gates of Arctic National Park. 40 41 MR. FOX: Good morning. I'm Trevor 42 Fox. I'm the Regional Subsistence Coordinator for the 43 U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. And I'm the Area Two 44 Staff Committee Member of the Agency. 45 46 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: So did we 47 miss anyone. The gentleman -- yeah. Go ahead. 48 49 MS. LONG: My name is Leona Long and I 50 am here with the TBF. 5 1 MR. HAWKALUK: Good morning. I'm 2 Nathan Hawkaluk. 3 4 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: And the 5 gentleman in the front we missed. 6 7 MR. WILBUR: I'm Rick Wilbur. I'm from 8 Fairbanks. 9 10 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Hi. Welcome, 11 everyone. So next on the Agenda is the review and 12 adoption of the Agenda. 13 14 And just in helping with the essence of 15 time, first on old business 10C, Refuge proposed rule 16 on hunting, it's going to be moved to 9:00 a.m. so we 17 can have one person -- Ellis is in D.C. And so he can 18 participate with us online. So that will be moved to 19 9:00 a.m. tomorrow. 20 21 I'm going to have to rely on you, Eva, 22 to help me remember that. 23 24 MS. PATTON: Sure. 25 26 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: And then 27 there's been a request to have Proposal 39 added as the 28 cross-over proposals, because it affects the Village of 29 Tanana. And Lester wants to be on for that. So we'll 30 be adding cross-over proposal for us. 39 under -- 31 right, the last proposal actually. 32 33 And then we're adding H. The sheep 34 working group letter that just got handed out this 35 morning. 36 37 And I'm going to ask, is there any 38 other changes to the Agenda. 39 40 (No comments) 41 42 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Any other 43 additions or changes. So entertain a motion. 44 45 MR. BASSICH: Yeah. Move to adopt the 46 agenda as modified. 47 48 MR. KOEHLER: Second. 49 50 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Any 6 1 discussion. 2 3 (No comments) 4 5 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: All in favor, 6 say aye. 7 8 IN UNISON: Aye. 9 10 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Any opposed. 11 12 (No opposing votes) 13 14 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Okay. The 15 agenda is adopted. 16 17 Now, the minutes. Has everyone had a 18 chance to review the minutes. They're on page five of 19 your book. Any additions or corrections. 20 21 MR. FIRMIN: Motion to adopt minutes. 22 23 MR. KOEHLER: Second. 24 25 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: There's been 26 a motion and second to adopt the minutes. All in 27 favor. 28 29 IN UNISON: Aye. 30 31 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Any opposed. 32 33 (No opposing votes) 34 35 MADAME CHAIR ENSTMINGER: Okay. Length 36 of service awards. I don't think that's me. 37 38 MS. PATTON: Madame Chair and Council, 39 we have a couple service awards for Council Members. 40 OSM recognizes the dedication and the service to your 41 communities and to the Region in bringing forth 42 subsistence and knowledge from your subsistence hunting 43 and fishing. And very much recognize the time it takes 44 to really dedicate to this process and make sure that 45 your community and Region's voices are heard.