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Big-game guide loses license permanently over illegal 2011 hunts
Author: Chris Klint Updated: 2 days ago Published 3 days ago
A big-game hunting guide will never guide in Alaska again after an agreement with the state stemming from a series of 2011 offenses during hunts in the Yakutat area.

Alaska State Troopers said in a Tuesday dispatch that Anchorage resident Garrett Wayne Cox, 49, had "permanently surrendered his registered guide license and future right to practice any class of guide or transporter service."

Cox ran a business called Alaska Trophy Hunting with a former master guide, 76-year-old Vern Humble. The two were accused of allowing "packers" — employees not licensed as guides, accompanying them on a hunt at Icy Bay west of Yakutat — "to guide clients while unaccompanied by licensed professionals in pursuit of big game animals," troopers said.

Troopers said Cox also participated in illegal brown bear hunts at Icy Bay by three Outside packers. Two of them, 29-year-olds Jonathan Monier and Phillip Zimmermann, were convicted of taking bears without a required $500 non-resident locking tag; the third, 27-year-old Brandon Kolstad, was convicted of hunting without proper tags and possessing illegally taken game.

"They agreed to cooperate with the state in the proceedings involving Mr. Cox and were sentenced to pay fines and restitution for the bears taken without non-resident tags," troopers wrote.

In another 2011 brush with the law, Cox and Humble were charged with trying to cover up a client's illegal shooting of a moose in the vicinity of Icy Cape, south of Cordova. Court records show that Cox, accused of helping Humble make a false claim in records that the moose kill happened in an area where it was legal, pleaded guilty to unlawful transportation of game and failing to report a guiding violation in that case.

Humble lost his master's license in connection with offenses committed in 2012, which also netted Cox a $3,100 fine and a one-year suspension of his guiding privileges, troopers said.

The state Office of Special Prosecutions and Big Game Commercial Services Board negotiated the agreement with Cox.

Mark Begich, Joaquin Jackson, and Heller resistance... Three huge reasons to worry about the NRA.


Joaquin is dead.

No state should force a person to use a guide for any hunt if you have a legal licence to hunt in that state

Always hated those guide requirement laws. If ones product can not hold up in the market place, have the government mandate it's use.

Arrive as a professional hunter and one must hire a guide. Live there as a hair dresser for a year and one's good for brown bear.

It's all money and the guide industry has more power than the hunter. Politics will never change.

Bingo! Look what they did with relatives coming to Ak to hunt sheep.. Guide industry has a lot of cash..

Leave Randy out of this!

Anyone else have issues with the new "Youth Sheep Hunt"?
A new way for outfitters to cut in front of the resident hunter?
A 21 and 17 year old can go out together and harvest a sheep together under the guise of youth-hunt?

I don't really have an issue with it. As I understand it, the 21 year old would have to punch his tag as well in that scenario.

From the reg book "changes" section:
"The bag limit counts towards both the youth and the accompanying adult."

So here is my question. If the youth is accompanied by a guide, does the guide have to punch his tag?

I know of one monster ram already taken this year by a kid during the youth hunt, and he was guided.

The youth hunt is backwards progress. All the complaining about sheep numbers dropping and restrictions people want put in place. So the BOG opens a early season with less restrictions than regular season, like you can spot sheep from the air on the youth season, but not the regular season. We just took a step backwards...