PCR Exhibits - Alaska State of Corruption

Exhibit 10
November 8, 2004:
DAVE HAEG’S WOLF STATEMENT THAT WAS ENTERED INTO THE COURT
RECORD AND THEN REMOVED
ADF&G told me the 4 teams who had hunted all winter had taken less than ¼ of the wolves
specified and that there was a concern the program might be terminated if more wolves
were not killed.
Probably because of this a current Board of Game member at the February meeting told
me that if we ended up shooting wolves outside the open area to just report them taken
inside the area.
A former State biologist said he couldn’t believe people were not poisoning the wolves out there
and went on to explain exactly the poison that works best and how to obtain it. Several other
Board of Game members along with high level ADF&G personnel and many others testifying at
the February BOG meeting all had the same comment to me: It is much more important for a
pilot as good as you to be out killing wolves then to be here testifying at this meeting.
Several ADF&G people at the BOG meeting again made the comment that there was a big
concern that since so few wolves had been taken in the previous 4 months the program would be
seen as a failure and terminated.
I don’t know if I was exactly brainwashed at this point but I was feeling immense pressure
from all sides to kill wolves.
The cancelled fall hunts would have provided ¾’s of our total years income to Jackie and I. Yet
we still had to pay the State thousands in land leases and permits for our lodge and hunting
camps even though we did not use them this past season. We had to cancel all my summer
flightseeing trips because the plane I used for this was seized. Our legal bills are growing and we
lost not only my income for this past season but also my wife’s. Neither of us have any other
income.
We assisted in the investigation in everyway possible including rushing a map with kill
locations to Mr. Leaders ASAP at his request.
I ask you to again look carefully at my intentions, at my lack of any prior offenses except 2
speeding tickets, at the Board of Games intention of expanding aerial wolf control to include the
area where we took wolves, at the circumstances involved, at how much we both have suffered
already financially, at what motivated me, that I felt under pressure to make the program a
success, that I was told by a current Board of Game member that if we shot wolves outside the
area to just report that they were taken inside the area, that I was encouraged to poison wolves by
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