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State permit policies & procedures
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Alaska
Website
Alaska Department of Fish and Game website:http://www.adfg.state.ak.us/
Information about scientific research permits: http://http://www.wildlife.alaska.gov/index.cfm?adfg=license.main
Advisory
In 2008, the Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game revised its permit
policies and application forms. This policy is current as of November
2008. Questions about the policy, raised by the Ornithological Council,
primarily with regard to the animal welfare provisions of the
regulation, are under consideration by the agency. However, until
further notice, this policy is in effect.
You may also need permission to work on state property. Even if
you don't need a formal permit to do so, you should always make
arrangements with management to be sure your activities will not
interfere with their activities, will not affect the public use of the
property, and that you are aware of hunting activities that may be
taking place on the property.
In the meantime, the current regulations are provided, below.
Contact:
Tom Schumacher
Wildlife Biologist, Permits Section
Alaska Dept. of Fish and Game
P.O. Box 115526
Juneau, AK 99811-5526
Phone: (907) 465-4148
Email: tom.schumacher_AT_alaska.gov
Is a permit required for banding?
No.
The ADF&G 2008 policy (download here) expressly states:
All lethal collection of wildlife for scientific purposes requires a
scientific permit; using a hunting or trapping license for scientific
take of game* is not appropriate. All live capture and handling of
wildlife also requires a scientific permit, except migratory birds may
be live captured under a valid federal banding or Highly Pathogenic
Avian Influenza (HPAI) surveillance permit for banding or disease
surveillance purposes only. Captured birds may be weighed, measured,
and marked with auxiliary markers (excluding telemetry or datalogger
devices). Blood, feather, and swab samples may be collected from
captured birds at the time of initial capture or incidental recapture
only.
* The terms “wildlife” and “game” are interchangeable according to the ADF&G policy.
Permit Application Forms
Policies
General Procedures
Miscellaneous Game Regulations
Alaska Department of Fish and Game
Effective July 1, 2002
5 AAC 92.033. PERMIT FOR SCIENTIFIC, EDUCATIONAL, PROPAGATIVE, OR PUBLIC SAFETY PURPOSES. (a)
Notwithstanding restrictions in 5 AAC 78 - 5 AAC 88, the department may
issue a permit for the taking, possessing, importing, or exporting of
game for scientific, educational, propagative, or public safety
purposes.
The department may issue a
permit for taking of big game for public safety purposes to an
individual, including a state, municipal, or federal government
official responsible for public safety, only as follows:
(1) the department shall evaluate all reported public safety problems
involving big game brought to the department's attention, determine
whether an actual threat to public safety is caused by a big game
animal, and develop a list of all reasonable and practical solutions;
(2) if the department determines a threat to public safety can be
resolved only by taking a big game animal under this section and no
government official responsible for public safety is available, the
department may issue a permit to a private individual;
(3) a permit that authorizes lethal taking of a big game animal issued
to an individual other than a government official must be restricted to
taking a specific, identified problem animal;
(4) a permit issued under this section must specify;
(A) name of the permittee and authorized subpermittees;
(B) the species of big game animal that may be taken;
(C) the type of taking that is authorized, such as hazing, aversive conditioning, live trapping, or lethal taking;
(D) methods and means that may be employed;
(E) duration of the permit;
(F) the location of permitted activities;
(G) disposition of game taken; and
(H) reporting requirements.
5 AAC 92.047. PERMIT FOR USING RADIO TELEMETRY EQUIPMENT.
(a) A person may not use radio telemetry equipment to pursue game
without first obtaining a permit from the department, unless that
person is an authorized employee or agent of
1. the department; or
2. a federal conservation agency with a current memorandum of understanding or cooperative agreement with the department.
(b) At the time of application, a permit applicant must provide the department with the following:
1. the species and number of game to be pursued using radio telemetry equipment;
2. the geographic area where the radio telemetry pursuit will be conducted;
3. the time frame when radio telemetry pursuit of game will be
conducted, including planned dates and frequency of field operations;
and
4. the names of all persons who will pursue game under the permit.
(c) A permit issued under this section must include reasonable conditions and protocols to ensure that
1. game being pursued is not unduly harassed resulting in behavioral or
energetic changes affecting individual viability or utility for
research; and
2. telemetry and survey operations conducted on game by the department
or other government agencies will not be impeded by the permittee's
activities.
(d) A permit issued under this section must include at least the following conditions:
1. a designation of the permitted geographic area for operations;
2. a designation of the flight altitudes for aircraft operations
necessary to ensure that the conditions specified in (c) of this
section are met;
3. standards for radio communications between the permittee and department;
4. standards for motorized vehicles to ensure that the conditions specified in (c) of this section are met;
5. reporting plans to conduct radio telemetry operations for the pursuit of game to designated department staff;
6. requirements that operations must be conducted so that game being
pursued does not respond to the permittee's activities by taking
evasive action; and
7. temporal or frequency restrictions to minimize potential for energetic or behavioral responses by game being pursued.
5 AAC 93.040. RADIO TELEMETRY FREQUENCIES.
Each radio telemetry frequency used by the department for a telemetry
study of game is confidential. Neither the commissioner nor any other
department employee will release a frequency except:
(1) to a governmental agency doing a wildlife study approved by the commissioner; or
(2) to another state agency if the commissioner finds that the agency has a legitimate need to know the frequency.
Please be sure to read the Ornithological Council's fact sheet on
radio telemetry and the frequencies available for use in ornithological
research: http://www.nmnh.si.edu/BIRDNET/orncounc/fact/Radio_tracking.html
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