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7/28/10 Contents:
Fish Creek Personal Use Fishery
Ice Road Portage Land Sale Solution
Stolen Outboard Motor Update
Jet Ski Malicious Mischief

7/28/10 (Forwarded by Rep. Neuman)
PERSONAL USE FISHING  Emergency Order ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH & GAME         
Under Authority of AS 16.05.060
Emergency Order No.  2-RS-2-38-10 Issued at: Palmer, Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Effective Date: 6:00 a.m., Saturday, July 24, 2010 Expiration Date:  11:00 p.m., Saturday, July 31, 2010 unless superseded by subsequent emergency order.

 EXPLANATION:

This emergency order opens Fish Creek in the Big Lake drainage to personal use dipnetting for salmon other than king salmon starting at 6:00 a.m., July 24, through 11:00 p.m., July 31. King salmon may not be retained; any king salmon caught must be released immediately.  Dipnetting is only allowed between the hours of 6:00 a.m. and 11:00 p.m.  In order to participate in this personal use fishery, dip netters must have a 2010 Cook Inlet Personal Use Permit and a 2010 resident sport fishing license.  The area open to dipnetting is from ADF&G regulatory markers located on both sides of the terminus of Fish Creek, to ADF&G regulatory markers located approximately one quarter mile upstream from Knik-Goose Bay Road.   

REGULATION:

The provisions of 5 AAC 77.540 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Salmon Fishery Management Plan (d)(1) are superseded by this emergency order. Under this emergency order, the following provisions are effective from 6:00 a.m., Saturday, July 24, through 11:00 p.m., Saturday, July 31, 2010:  

5AAC 77.540 Upper Cook Inlet Personal Use Salmon Fishery Management Plan.  

(d) Salmon may be taken by dip net in Fish Creek as follows:

(1)  the personal use dip net fishery in Fish Creek will open beginning 6:00 a.m., July 24 through

11:00 p.m., July 31, 2010, because the department projects that the escapement of sockeye salmon into Fish Creek will be above the upper end of the escapement goal of 70,000 fish. Fishing is allowed daily only from 6:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m.; 
Denby S. Lloyd,  Commissioner

7/25/10 Land Sale Solution in the works:
Representative Mark Neuman has cordial agreement from the Mental Health Land Trust to keep the Big Lake - Mud Lake ice road (I-5) portage trail open by either establishing right of way or removing the affected parcels from the land sale.  At this stage they are doing what we want, so Mark suggests it is best not to continue to call the Land Trust office.  He will keep our community informed of the resolution to this problem and I will post developments here.  Thanks to all those who wrote with comments and suggestions.  The list of those interested is now too long to post here. 
 - Larry Taylor
State Government Contact:
Representative_Mark_Neuman@legis.state.ak.us

7/15/10 Outboard Motors Stolen from Flat Lake Landing (with 7/25/10 update lower down):

7-13-10 photo:

          Two outboards were stolen from skiffs tied up along the bank at the Flat Lake Landing early this week.  Jake Jacobsen fund his gone when coming in to the lake on Tuesday and noticed that Craig Johnson's skiff was missing a motor, too.  Both were taken together with their gas cans.  Both are pictured above.  A police report has been filed.  An attempt had been made to take Larry and Gail Taylor's motor a few weeks earlier, but the thieves did not have the right tools to make a go of it.  Craig says. "You can be on the lookout for a 1964 merc 200, 20 HP - a pretty distinctive motor, not many around any more."

          Update:
Hello Larry,
That’s awful about the boat motors. Interestingly enough, a motor appeared on the back of my skiff that same weekend. Obviously, someone needed to use my skiff…now I’m wondering if that motor was stolen. I didn’t use the skiff last weekend-I would have, but I didn’t have a gas tank!  I can see my boat with someone else’s motor in the picture you posted. Mine is the third boat in.  Also, my kayak was stolen from my property this year. The very same weekend (Memorial Day Weekend) I saw the exact same kayak sitting on the shore at the channel all weekend long, unused. It had Coleman paddles with it, which I was also missing. I reclaimed what I thought was mine. I posted a sign with my phone number, if this kayak was indeed someone else’s. I never received a call on the kayak, but definitely want to be sure I didn’t take someone else’s. 
Hope all is well. 
Laura Hill 907-230-1240

Malicious Mischief Reported 7/13/10
          Tuesday night on 7-13-10. My jet ski was taking for a joy ride without my consent and they did a lot of damage to it. The Haggard's said they were in a thunder jet kind of boat, and they saw my jet ski with them making a ton of noise doing brodies in the boat. They didn't think anything of it because it was late and they didn't think it was mine, b
ut it was. There are only a few of them around and when I came up that next weekend I noticed that it wasn't put up the way I left it and it had no fuel in it so I started looking it over and saw all the damage to it. They did about 1000+ dollars in damage to it. This thing was in brand new condition and they don't make them anymore and I kept it nice so I'm pretty bummed out about the whole thing. But they rode it up on shore and messed up the haul and the jet unit. I talked to the neighbor and they said they met some people in a thunder jet and they left on Monday so I'm hoping it was them but I need some kind of proof before I go after them for the damage. If anyone has any information about this it would be greatly appreciated. 
Austin Goodrich 907-441-1836

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Activity at Camp Tukuskoya.

Personal note: I had both knees replaced on June11th and am recovering in Anchorage.  I was enough recovered for Gail and me to welcome our first grandchild, Soren Walker, into the world on June 23rd.  Below are a few shots of Soren and me in my new knees:


Soren Walker and Grandpa Larry


Grandpa, Soren, Catherine, and Ben Walker


Larry and Gail recuperating at the Anchorage condo.

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Hendrick Hansen rowing his shell on Flat Lake.

5/10/10

Swans on Flat Lake. Thanks to Craig
for calling to alert me to this photo opportunity.



Loon nesting on Scott and Rachel's Island 6/29/08
Excerpts from an Alaskan writer's manuscript, How Ice Freezes, Flying Squirrels, Ice Puppy photos, and Iced In:
Back To The Woods, On Flat Lake Time.


Samples of each of the Elements in the Periodic Table that are safe to display excite mineralologists and chemists at the
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The display was built to order and donated by the
Alaska Section of the American Chemical Society.

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Burston Island Fire link

Flat Lake Break-Up Party 2010

3/13/10

Everyone had a good time at the 30th Annual 2010 Flat Lake Cross Country Ski Gourmet Picnic. more photos

Video Cache of our Governor Sarah Palin giving husband Todd a send-off kiss in the 2007 Iron Dog Snowmachine Race. (Lots of searches for Sarah Palin, but they are distracted by "Vehicles that broke through the ice" and the ice thickness safety chart.)

Big Lake Trails Photos & and Project Story

Anna Violette Reports

Dan Kruse YouTube on building his house: slide show.

 
SavingGraceAK - April 25, 2010 - Building our family cabin...lots of memories

Haggard's 2010 New Years Party Photos

Duckies

Loon battle on ice videos

The 29th Flat Lake Gourmet Ski-in Picnic
Theme: "Alaska's 50th Anniversary of Statehood"
2009 Picnic Album

and Flat Lake Alaska Flag Song video

The 4th (2009) Flat Lake Open Golf Tournament

Flat Lake Masters 2008 photos

Haggards' 2008 New Year's Party On Ice

The 28th Annual Flat Lake Gourmet Ski-in Luau

Iditarod Race Champion Lance Mackey

Black bear video

Mother and baby porcupine wrestling

 Freeze-up 2008 photos

Pauli's 40th (a retrospective)

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