Alaska Fish and Wildlife Conservation Fund v. State

Summary

The Alaska Supreme Court affirmed summary judgment upholding the Board of Game’s community and individual subsistence-hunting systems in the Copper Basin. It held that the regulations did not violate Alaska’s equal-access provisions, exceeded no statutory authority, conflicted with no other regulation, and were adequately noticed under the Administrative Procedure Act. The court relied on the Board’s factual findings that community and individual hunting represented distinct customary and traditional subsistence-use patterns.