Sunday, August 27, 2006

Feds Open Brooks Range Sheep Hunting Area to Non Rural Hunters

The Federal Subsistence Board has approved a temporary Special Action, to open sheep hunting in the Red Sheep Creek and Cane Creek drainages of the Arctic Village Sheep Management Area to non-Federally qualified hunters from August 10 to September 20. This area has been closed to nonrural hunters since 1995. The Board approved lifting the closure at a public work session in Anchorage on Tuesday, July 18. The remainder of the Arctic Village Sheep Management Area remains closed to nonrural hunters.

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