Is Alaska Grizzly Separate Species?
Boone & Crockett Club Says Not
The Alaska grizzly as a trophy
animal is to have his ears clipped
back. Though he will continue to
retain his characteristics and his
reputation as a ferocious animal,
he will no longer be designated
as a grizzly to differentiate him
from a brown bear, in trophy com
petition.
The new ruling has been made
by no less an authority than the
Boone & Crockett Club, final au
thority in the U.S. for trophy ani
mal competition.
This controversy will not, of
course, be entered into by “Mr.
Grizzly,” as the 1961 edition of the
Alaska Hunting & Fishing Guide,
points out, but some of his friends
- mere men—have and will.
The fuse for the grizzly battle
was lit on March 14, 1961, when
Robert S. Waters, chairman of the
Boone and Crockett Club’s Com
mittee on Records of North Ameri
can Big Game made this announce
ment:
“Recent taxonomic studies
strongly indicate that the big
Alaska brown and grizzly bears—
formerly recorded as distinct va
rieties—can no longer be clearly
separated, since they are more log
ically to be considered as repres
enting a single, highly variable
species in which the different
forms frequently intergrade. As
the largest of these are found in
Alaska, all such bears from that
state will be included in a single
class in the future editions of Rec
ords of North American Big Game
and in the North American Big
Game Competitions sponsored by
the Boone and Crockett Club.
’‘In this new class, called Alas
kan bears of the Genus Ursus, a
minimum score of 27 will be re
quired for entry.”
In the 1958 edition of the Club’s
record trophies, 37 are from
Alaska.
The AH & FG says: “If the new
ruling stands, it means simply that
a sportsman seeking a trophy
grizzly that lie wants entered in
the Boone and Crockett record
book, he will not find it in Alaska.
Grizzlies for trophy competition
will not be recognized from this
state.
James W. Brooks, director of the
Division of Game of ADF & G, has
entered the battle to have the
Alaska Grizzly restored to compe
tition.
Brooks and Hal Waugh, formerly
from Kodiak, and now a well known
Alaskan guide, advocate bound
aries be set up for taking the griz
zly, but that he be retained as a
separate species.
But as the magazine affirms,
‘•Mr. Grizzly” is least concerned,
end continues to roam the moun
tains and valley of Alaska, king
of his domain.
‘ And regardless of the final de
cision as to how he will be classed
by two-legged man, the Alaska griz
zly will continue to be a dangerous
and worthy opponent for any
hunter who seeks him.”
Considerable space is devoted
in this edition of the magazine to
the grizzly, all highly interesting,
but there are also articles on other
game animals in Alaska, fishing,
bear stories, maps of areas for
good fishing, and many other ar
ticles of interest to the sportsman.
A list of all the registered guides
is also given.
The magazine is edited by Ed
Fortier and published by him and
Herb Rhodes, in Anchorage.
Admiral C. Knapp
Inspects CG Unit
The U. S. Coast Guard Air De
tachment, Naval Station, Kodiak,
was designated as “the outstanding
unit in the 17th District” by Rear
Admiral C. C. Knapp, Commanding
Officer of the 17th Coast Guard
District, who inspected the unit
July 31.
Three Coast Guardsmen received
the Coast Guard Conduct Medal
for their three years of unbroken
good conduct.
These were B. F. Baty EN3, W.
E. Leistner AL1, and A. M. Bake
ney RM2.
REAR ADMIRAL KNAPP pre
pares to speak to the assembled
officers and men. In his speech
Admiral Knapp praised the rec
ord of the Air Detachment as
an outstanding unit.
From left to right: Rear Ad
miral C. C. Knapp, Commander
17 th Coast Guard District; CDR.
C. A. Richmond, Commanding
Officer Coast Guard Air Detach
ment.
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Rotarians’ Learn
About Tagging Elk
Tagging elk on Afognak and
Raspberry Islands earlier this year
was dascr bed by Ron Bachelor,
biologist in the Game Division of
the ADF & G at the noon meeting
of the Rotary Club Tuesday at the
49 Roam. 35mm slides, taken of the
operation, were also shown.
Bachelor and Larry Craig, as
sisted by pilot Paul Breed and
mechanic, and a helicopter spent
a week tagging elk calves. Much of
the tagging was done in the Malina
Bay area, first in valleys and later
on higher levels. The area was de
scribed as rugged terrain, consist
ing of brush and hummocks. Bach
elor described one incident when
he grabbed a calf elk by the hocks
and was pulled 30 feet by the ani
mal before he could stop him. He
said they found the calves much
older than expected, some of them
six weeks old. This added to the
difficulty of catching them. 23 in
all were tagged, he said. Tagging
consisted of plac ng a numbered
plastic disk on one ear and a metal
band on the other.
Bachelor was interrupted by a
female elk one time as he was plac
ing a tag on a calf. In his hurry he
neglected to find out its sex. “If
any hunters find an elk with a num
ber 22 tag, please report the sex
of the animal,” he said.
The biologist tried using a fish
net, but found this didn’t work at
all. The animals were able to ex
tricate themselves without any dif
ficulty.
Next year, Bachelor said, they
will continue tagging the animals,
but they ■plan to use C-02 guns im
mobilizing the animals long enough
to tag them.
Guests attending the meeting
were Father Sutton, Sgt. John
Crandall, Dell Eberhardt, Dick
Berg, Bill Stolwall, Dick Findley
and Ron Bachelor.
Harry Pinch Here
Harry Pinch, well known busi
nessman in Kodiak in the early
’40’s, has been in Kodiak the past
week on a combined business and
vacation trip.
Owner of several pieces of prop
erty in the City, Mr. Pinch is seek
ing to dispose of some of it, as well
as a possible development of a part
of the land.
He and a group flew by Kodiak
Airways over the weekend to Fraz
ier Lake, where, he said, he en
joyed some of the finest fishing
and saw some of the greatest scen
ery he had seen anywhere.
Pinch is returning South by way
of Anchorage. He is now living in
Hollywood, Calif.
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On The Screen
Johy Wayne shares starring hon
o’\> with Maureen O'Hara and
Barry Fitzgerald in John Ford’s
Technicolor production, “The Quiet
Man,” which plays here tomorrow.
Victor McLaglen is also in the cast.
The picturesque Irish country
side was captured for the film,
with locations like Cong, in County
Mayor. Galway, Spiddal, the Maam
Valley, Lake Corrib and the charm
ing stone bridge of Learn.
Musical score is by Victor Young.
Claudette Colbert, star of “It
Happened One Night” and many
other hits, appears in a Western
for the first time as “The Texas
Lady,” which appears on a double
bill with “Anna Lucasta” for the
last showing tonight.
“The Texas Lady” is in Super
scope and Technicolor.
With today’s speed highway
safety is a life and death matter.
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