Story last updated at 11/9/2009 - 11:27 am
KOTZEBUE - Two Point Hope men are facing trial on caribou wasting charges after a judge in Kotzebue rejected a defense motion to dismiss their case.
Roy A. Miller Jr. and Koomalook M. Stone had sought to have their cases thrown out on grounds that people in the Alaska bush did not have sufficient notice about the regulation on salvaging meat when it was implemented in 1991.
Defense lawyer Ella Anagick argued that state Superior Court Judge Richard Erlich should invalidate the regulation partly because public hearing notices were published only in major newspapers not read in many areas of the state.
But the judge agreed Friday with Assistant Attorney General Andrew Peterson, who argued the state followed procedure for adopting the regulation.
Eight men have been charged with wasting caribou after at least 37 caribou were found rotting on the tundra outside Point Hope in the summer of 2008.
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