State v. Morry’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “In May 1985 Patrick Mekiana and I went hunting and fishing. We camped at Little Chandler Lake, northwest of the Village, and spent a day or two ice fishing. Then we went hunting one day and found a grizzly bear near the headwaters of the Kiruktagiak River, to the west of Little Chandler Lake. I shot the bear and we returned to our camp with the bear by the end of the day.... This place [where I shot the bear] is a few miles southwest of a traditional campsite which I and others in the Village have used in the past. Both the place where I shot the bear and the campsite are within the Gates of the Arctic National Park. The next day Patrick and I returned to the Village with the bear. We completely distributed the meat to various households around the Village. I notified Raymond Paneak that I had taken a bear, and he came over to my house and sealed the bear hide with a metal tag. He did not seal the skull because it needed cleaning. Later Grant Spearman asked me if I would donate the skull to the school because they were studying animals and collecting specimens. I gave the skull to Grant_ I believe the date [of the sealing certificate] is May 16, 1985. When Trooper Don Wilson came around investigating my bear harvest, I believe that he learned all of these facts from me and Raymond Paneak. Don Wilson did not tell me that he was going to charge me with any game violations, or even that he thought that I had committed any violations. I was completely surprised when I was served ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morry v. State

2. “[w]hatever the ‘noncommercial, customary and traditional uses’ standard of the definition of ‘subsistence uses’ in AS 16.05.940(30) may mean, it is plainly related to non-trophy uses that are ‘for direct personal or family consumption as food, shelter, fuel, clothing, tools or transportation,’ for the ‘making and selling’ of handicrafts, and for ‘customary trade, barter or sharing.’ There is no hint that hunting for trophies is a subsistence use.... Many people, both residents of the state and non-residents, hunt grizzly bears for trophies and leave the meat at the kill site ... But it is not a subsistence use, and plaintiffs have contended throughout that it is manifestly unreasonable to apply the regulatory regime designed to govern such trophy-hunting practices to the uses in those places, such as Kwethluk and Anaktuvuk Pass, where brown bears are hunted for the meat and raw materials.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Totemoff v. State

3. “AS 16.05.258(c) mandates that the Board of Game ‘shall adopt Subsistence ... hunting regulations for each ... population for which a harvestable portion is determined to exist’. Given this command, we conclude that Morryf’s) ... argument, that these trophy hunting regulations do not constitute compliance with the requirement of AS 16.05.258(c) that the Board of Game adopt subsistence hunting regulations for the game in question, is persuasive.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Morry v. State