PCR Exhibits - Alaska State of Corruption

After calling in the report, Haeg and Zellars returned to Soldotna, taking the three-wolf
hides with them. On 3/15/04, they received a call from Fish and Game in McGrath telling them
that the three hides had to be sealed in McGrath.
On 3/20/04, Haeg and Zellars flew from Soldotna to Trophy Lake Lodge, where they
spent the night. They had brought the three wolf hides back with them to take to McGrath for
sealing.
On the morning of 3/21/04, Haeg and Zellars decided to fly South (further from the legal
area) to the upper Stony River to look for wolves and check out local moose populations. Several
wolves were spotted on the Stony River, and a gray male was shot from the air with the shotgun.
Zellars did the shooting from the air while Haeg flew. One of the wolves was wounded and
Zellars shot the wounded wolf again from the ground with the .223. Multiple shots were taken at
the other wolves, but none were killed. The dead wolf was taken back to the lodge where it was
dropped off whole.
During their interviews, Haeg and Zellars pointed out the location of the kill on a map.
The location described as the kill location for this wolf was more than eighty miles from the
nearest border of the legal hunt area.
Haeg and Zellars then flew to McGrath with the three wolf hides from earlier in the
month. Upon arrival in McGrath, the two men met with Biologist Toby Boudreau, to have the
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 Zellars 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 Zellars 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 Zellars 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 Zellars 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.
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