ANCHORAGE, Alaska — A proposal to allow for a moose hunt in Anchorage’s Kincaid Park will not move forward after a state legal analysis found the hunt would violate Alaska’s constitution.
In March, the Alaska Board of Game unanimously approved a proposal brought by a Palmer man to allow a limited number of people with physical disabilities to hunt for antlerless moose at Kincaid, a busy 1,400-acre park just south of Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport. The hunt would have been during a roughly two-week period in October.
But the Board of Game “lacks specific statutory authority” to allow a hunt for a specific group of people, in this case people with physical disabilities, the Alaska Department of Law said in a June 23 letter.
