Thank you, John, for this op-ed. At the spring meeting in Glenallen last year I argued before the board that if we had real issues with residents getting moose in Unit 13, the first thing we should do is curtail nonresident moose hunting. (Up to 150 nonresident moose permits are available.)  I also argued that the "any bull" component includes moose hunted under 50"/4 brow tine regs, so they can't declare the "any bull" component a Tier II hunt if they also allow nonresident hunting of that same component. Yet they did exactly that. Ahtna will pursue whatever means (Fed Subsistence Board & Board of Game) to get what they want: a preference. Under state regs and with our state BOG, however, that should be illegal when we have surplus of animals and allow nonresident hunting of the same population.