Anchorage Daily News

GLENNALLEN -- Applications are being taken until noon Sunday for 30 community sharing permits to hunt Nelchina caribou as a designated hunter in state game management Unit 13.

Successful applicants will be required to deliver two caribou quarters -- including at least one hindquarter -- to a community sharing event Oct. 3 in Kluti Kaah, near Copper Center.

"Designated hunters selected to hunt for the sharing events must deliver all meat and animal parts to the hunt administrator," according to a news release issued by John Sky Starkey of the Ahtna Native regional corporation. "The hunt administrator may, after consultation with the community hunter donating the harvest ticket ... share some of the meat harvested with a successful designated hunter."

Designated hunters must also:

• Abide by customary and traditional sharing, salvage and other practices.

• Remove the antlers from the skull plate and leave them at the kill site.

• Be at least a 16-year-old resident who holds an Alaska hunting license and a state identification card.

Applications and information regarding the Nelchina caribou community harvest program are available at the Ahtna Office in Glennallen, on the Ahtna Web site, www.ahtna-inc.com, or by calling the Ahtna hunt hotline, 907-822-8136.

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