1 EASTERN INTERIOR FEDERAL SUBSISTENCE 2 REGIONAL ADVISORY COUNCIL MEETING 3 4 PUBLIC MEETING 5 6 VOLUME I 7 8 9 Pike's Landing 10 Fairbanks, Alaska 11 March 3, 2011 12 8:30 a.m. 13 14 15 16 COUNCIL MEMBERS PRESENT: 17 18 Sue Entsminger, Chair 19 Andrew Bassich 20 Lester Erhart 21 Andrew Firmin 22 William Glanz 23 Frank Gurtler 24 Joseph Matesi 25 Virgil Umphenour 26 Larry Williams 27 Donald Woodruff 28 29 Regional Council Coordinator, K.J. Mushovic 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 Recorded and transcribed by: 44 45 Computer Matrix Court Reporters, LLC 46 135 Christensen Drive 47 Anchorage, AK 99501 48 907-243-0668 49 [email protected] 1 P R O C E E D I N G S 2 3 (Fairbanks, Alaska - 3/3/2011) 4 5 (On record) 6 7 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: I'd like to 8 call this meeting to order. Can everybody take their 9 seats. Okay. We'll call the Eastern Interior Regional 10 Advisory Council to order. 11 12 And I want to welcome everyone. And 13 we're starting off with an invocation by -- Lester has 14 appointed Larry to do that. Would everyone stand. 15 16 MR. WILLIAMS: In any public gathering 17 in our culture, any public gathering or any time we get 18 together to talk about important -- things that are 19 important to us, it's appropriate to give thinks to the 20 Great Spirit for watching over us, so at this time 21 we'll be doing that. 22 23 Thank you, Lord, for giving us this 24 beautiful day in which to conduct our meeting. Watch 25 all our families while we are away from home, and watch 26 over them and watch over our grandkids and over our 27 grown kids and whoever that are real important to us. 28 And guide us through the day to make appropriate 29 remarks and to try to help our subsistence users to 30 continue to live off the land and to voice their 31 concerns at this meeting. And for this we give you 32 thanks. 33 34 Amen. 35 36 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Thank you, 37 Larry. Are you ready to do the roll call. Andrew is 38 our secretary and he's going to do the roll call. 39 40 MR. FIRMIN: Okay. Sue Entsminger. 41 42 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Here. 43 44 MR. FIRMIN: Myself is here. Larry 45 Williams, Sr. 46 47 MR. WILLIAMS: Here. 48 49 MR. FIRMIN: Lester Erhart. 50 2 1 MR. ERHART: Here. 2 3 MR. FIRMIN: Andy Bassich. 4 5 MR. BASSICH: Here. 6 7 MR. FIRMIN: William Glanz. 8 9 MR. GLANZ: Here. 10 11 MR. FIRMIN: Frank Gurtler. Absent. 12 Joseph Matesi. 13 14 MR. MATESI: Here. 15 16 MR. FIRMIN: Donald Woodruff. 17 18 MR. WOODRUFF: Here. 19 20 MR. FIRMIN: Virgil Umphenour. 21 22 MR. UMPHENOUR: Here. 23 24 MR. FIRMIN: Madame Chair. I believe 25 we have a quorum. 26 27 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Yes. Quorum 28 is established. 29 30 I want to welcome the two new members, 31 Larry Williams from Venetie and is it Joe or Joseph? 32 33 MR. MATESI: Joe's fine. 34 35 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Joe's fine. 36 Okay. Joe Matesi, and you're from the..... 37 38 MR. MATESI: Porcupine River. 39 40 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Out in the 41 middle of nowhere, right? I like that. I want to 42 check it out. All right. And welcome to the Council. 43 All right. 44 45 Now, introduction of agency staff and 46 honored guests. How do we want to go about that? Do 47 you guys want to just go around the room, starting with 48 Polly. 49 50 DR. WHEELER: Polly Wheeler with the 3 1 Office of Subsistence Management. Good morning. 2 3 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Good morning, 4 Polly. 5 6 MR. BERG: Jerry Berg with Fish and 7 Wildlife Service out of Anchorage. 8 9 DR. STRAM: Diana Stram with North 10 Pacific Fishery Management Council, Anchorage. 11 12 MS. KIMBALL: Nicole Kimball also with 13 the North Pacific Council, Anchorage. 14 15 MR. TWEIT: And I'm Bill Tweit from the 16 North Pacific Council, for Washington State. 17 18 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Gene. 19 20 MR. SANDONE: Public, too? 21 22 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Yes. You can 23 tell us you're public. 24 25 MR. SANDONE: Okay. My name is Gene 26 Sandone, a private consultant working for Kwik'Pak 27 Fisheries and Yukon Delta Fisheries Development 28 Association. 29 30 MR. CASIPIT: I'm Cal Casipit. I'm 31 with the Forest Service out of Juneau. 32 33 MR. PAPPAS: George Pappas, Department 34 of Fish and Game, subsistence liaison team. 35 36 MR. DUDGEON: Greg Dudgeon, 37 superintendent, Yukon Charley Refuge and KCR. 38 39 MS. MASICA: I'm Sue Masica with the 40 National Park Service out of Anchorage. 41 42 MS. CELLARIUS: Barbara Cellarius, 43 subsistence coordinator for Wrangell-St. Elias National 44 Park and Preserve. 45 46 MR. LIEBSCHER: I'm Tom Liebscher. I'm 47 the chief of Natural, Cultural, and Fire Resources for 48 the Park Service in Fairbanks. 49 50 MR NEELY: Good morning. Jim Neely 4 1 with the Division of Refuge Law Enforcement, Fish and 2 Wildlife Service. 3 4 MR. MATHEWS: Vince Mathews, 5 subsistence coordinator for Arctic, Kanuti and Yukon 6 Flats. 7 8 MR. REARDEN: Spencer Rearden with OSM 9 out of Anchorage. Wildlife biologist. 10 11 MS. BUCKELEW: Good morning. Stacey 12 Buckelew, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 13 Commercial Fisheries. 14 15 MR. BUE: Fish and Wildlife Service, 16 Fred Bue out of Fairbanks. 17 18 MR. ESTENSEN: Good morning. Jeff 19 Estensen, Alaska Department of Fish and Game, Yukon 20 fall manager for commercial fisheries out of Fairbanks. 21 22 MR. MEARS: Jeremy Mears, Fish and 23 Wildlife Service out of Fairbanks. 24 25 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: The gentleman 26 behind. 27 28 MS. BRYANT: Joanne Bryant, Arctic 29 Refuge. 30 31 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: You were 32 hiding, I didn't see you. Sorry. 33 34 MS. PETER: My name is Josephine Peter 35 from Arctic Village, senior citizen. 36 37 MR. LORD: Willie Lord, first chief, 38 Nenana. Public. 39 40 MR. KELLER: Peter Keller, Tetlin 41 National Wildlife Refuge. 42 43 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Hi, Peter. 44 45 MS. GRONQUIST: Ruth Gronquist with the 46 Bureau of Land Management. 47 48 MR. KRUPA: Dave Krupa, subsistence 49 program, National Park Service, Yukon Charley and Gates 50 of the Arctic. 5 1 MR. POST: Jason Post, Eastern Interior 2 fish biologist for BLM. 3 4 MR. BRYANT: Dave Bryant, Nenana. 5 6 MS. ROBERTS-HYSLOP: Julia Roberts- 7 Hyslop, President for the Native Village of Tanana. 8 9 RON: Ron Dosamene (ph) from Nenana. 10 11 MR. JENKINS: David Jenkins. I'm an 12 anthropologist with the Office of Subsistence 13 Management. 14 15 MS. MEDEIROS: Andrea Medeiros with the 16 Office of Subsistence Management. 17 18 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Over here. 19 20 MR. HALL: Yeah. I'm Dan Hall from 21 Anchorage, and a member of the North Pacific Fishery 22 Management Council. 23 24 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay. One 25 other person just walked in. Would you like to 26 introduce yourself. 27 28 MS. McGREAGOR: Oh, my. I'm not even 29 sure I'm in the right place. 30 31 (Laughter) 32 33 MS. McGREAGOR: I'm here for the 34 (indiscernible) Arctic. I'm in the wrong place. 35 36 (Laughter) 37 38 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Yeah. We 39 could still have your introduction. 40 41 MS. McGREAGOR: Well, my name's Jaina 42 McGreagor, I'm a student here, and I've lived here in 43 Fairbanks since 1969, and in Alaska since 1962. 44 45 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Well, I hope 46 you find your place. 47 48 (Laughter) 49 50 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay. I want 6 1 to introduce Sue Masica again. Also you didn't tell us 2 that you're on the Federal Subsistence Board for the 3 Park Service. So she's here. And I'm going to you all 4 who they all are later, so you can tell me. I always 5 forget. 6 7 (Laughter) 8 9 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay. All 10 right. Now it's time to review and adopt the agenda. 11 12 Council members, do we have any 13 changes. Okay. Virgil. 14 15 MR. UMPHENOUR: The call for proposals 16 for the State Board of Fisheries is going to be the 8th 17 of April, and I have two potential proposals that I 18 think we should address. So I'd like to get them put 19 on the agenda. 20 21 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Okay, Virgil. 22 Two potential proposals, and you want them to come from 23 the council, so do we want -- where do want to add it, 24 before we start the wildlife stuff? 25 26 MR. UMPHENOUR: I think prior to the 27 wildlife stuff, at the end of the fish stuff. 28 29 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: So let's just 30 add E, F, G. All right. Anyone else. Andy. 31 32 MR. BASSICH: Thank you, Madame Chair. 33 Yeah, I have a special action request for fisheries 34 conservation. I'd like to put it under fisheries 35 issues as B. 36 37 MADAME CHAIR ENTSMINGER: Let's see.