PCR Exhibits - Alaska State of Corruption

wolves sealed. Haeg provided the information for the sealing of the wolves, knowing that it was
false at the time he signed the form. He had claimed that the wolves had been shot inside the
permit area because he wanted to be known as a successful participant in the aerial wolf hunt.
On 3/22/04, Haeg and Zellers flew along the Swift River to check on moose numbers in
the local area. They still had the shotgun and rifle in the plane. They found a dead moose, which
had been recently killed by wolves. They spotted two different wolves near the moose kill. The
second wolf they saw was a large gray male, and was shot from the air by Zellers with the
shotgun while Haeg was flying the plane. The wolf was hauled back to the lodge, and the two
men gathered traps and snares from the lodge, and two other sites in the field where traps and
snares were being stored. They returned to the moose kill site and set in excess of forty wolf
snares, and some traps. Each man set about half of the snares, and Haeg set the leg hold traps.
There were no diagrams made of where the snares and traps were set, and neither man wrote
down exactly how many snares had been set.
On 3/23/04, Haeg and Zellers decided to fly back to the Swift River to see if any wolves
had been caught in the traps or snares. After finding no animals at the set, the two men began to
fly upstream along the Swift River when they spotted, shot and killed four wolves running on the
river. They also located more wolves scattered in the trees. Four gray wolves were shot from the
air, with Zellers doing all of the shooting, while Haeg flew the plane. Multiple shots were taken
at other wolves in the pack, without success. All wolves were hauled from the field whole and
skinned at the lodge later that day.
The area where all five of the wolves were killed on the Swift River is fifty miles from
the nearest boundary of the legal hunt area, and separated by major terrain features.
On 3/24/04, Haeg and Zellers flew to Soldotna with all nine wolf hides. They had a
discussion about having Zellers get the six new wolves sealed in his name, and giving a false
location so that they would not draw extra attention to the Swift River area. Zellers took all nine
wolf hides to Anchorage, where on 3/26/04, he had the six new wolves sealed at the Fish and
Game office. Zellers knew that the information he provided during sealing was false at the time
he signed the signed the certificate. After getting the wolf hides sealed, he took all nine to Alpha
Fur Dressers to have them tanned.
During their interviews, both Haeg and Zellers admitted that they knew that the wolves
they shot from the airplane were outside the permit area when they were shot.
Both Haeg and Zellers stated that they did not know that the leg hold traps had to be
pulled before March 31st, and that they never went back to the trap and snare set. Haeg stated
that Tony Lee had pulled some of the animals from the set during April, and he thought that Lee
was going to pull all of the traps and snares. When Gibbens asked Haeg if he thought that the
snares which were left out were his responsibility, he said that he did not think so, since he
thought that Tony Lee was going to take care of them. Gibbens asked him if he told Tony Lee
exactly how many snares were at the site, and he said that he did not know.
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