PCR Exhibits - Alaska State of Corruption

Exhibit 14
PROOF HAEG’S IMMUNIZED STATEMENT WAS PUBLISHED BY THE MEDIA –
ALSO PROOF THAT WHAT HAEG SAID WAS FALSIFIED
Aerial Wolf Hunters Face Chargesunting outside state sanctioned area
Tataboline Brant / Anchorage Daily News / November 10, 2004
Two men contracted to kill wolves in a state predator-control program near McGrath have been
slapped with numerous criminal charges that accuse them of shooting the animals from their
planes outside the prescribed area, according to court papers.
David Haeg, 38, of Soldotna, and Tony Zellers, 41, of Eagle River, each face five counts of
shooting wolves from a plane, two counts of unlawful possession of game, and one count of
lying about where they shot the wolves.
Haeg, owner and operator of Trophy Lake Lodge, is also charged with two counts of trapping in
closed season and one count of failure to salvage game.
Each charge against them is a class A misdemeanor, punishable by up to a year in jail and a
$10,000 fine.
According to Alaska State Troopers, Haeg and Zellers last March applied for and were granted a
state permit allowing them to kill wolves on the same day the two hunters were airborne in an
area near McGrath -- a practice that is usually forbidden under state law.
The tactic, part of a predator-control program approved by the Alaska Board of Game in 2003,
was designed to eliminate wolves in a 3,300-square-mile area surrounding McGrath to help the
moose population there grow.
But charges say Haeg and Zellers on numerous occasions shot wolves outside the prescribed area
-- in one case, as far as 80 miles from the nearest border of the legal hunt zone -- and then
falsified paperwork to the state about where the wolves were killed.
Troopers also believe the two men caught wolverines out of season in snares and in one case
failed to return to the snares, leaving a salvageable wolf to rot, according to the court papers filed
last week and this week.
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