Hire them.

Dont think I could do payroll that big.

Stuff a cat down there and nail the door shut for a few days.....!

Then shoot the cat.

Exactly!

I was surprised at the prices along the Yukon...
in tanana, there was the store and a native corp fuel place. the store was $6.25 a gallon, the native corp gas was $6 a gallon.

Ruby was cheaper than Galena. Galena was $7.85 at the liquor store place, it was cheaper out at the grocery store, but savings were eroded by having to pay to go out there to save money.
Ruby was right around $7.

Dirt,
we could work out a fuel delivery partnership. I often go in with room for at least 1 drum in the sled, usually could fit a drum and 2 15's....
Could leave it halfway at big bend....you could take it from there to skwetna. and it would be cheaper gas from anchorage, not from the landing or willow...

I happen to have the study the State did for the geographic differential, comparing COL in rural, bush, southeast and road system.

In the country wide COL the US average is 100, which is the base line.....
for example:
NYC COL is overall 169.. or 69% higher than the average for the US..
stevens village is at 116 overall.


Now for the Alaska Specific Geo diff....

Anchorage is the base line at 1.00

Mat- su .95
Juneau 1.11
Cordova, valdez 1.05
seward 1.03
kodiak 1.12
aleutian islands 1.49
bristol bay 1.37
bethel 1.53
yukon/kuskokwim 1.16
barrow 1.55
kotzebue/ nome 1.37


Methodology
The study involved two primary research tasks, a Household Consumption Survey (HCS) and a Retail Price
Survey (RPS). The HCS provided data on the relative importance of various components of the household
budget (housing, food, transportation, etc.) and how consumption varies from community to community.
The RPS provided data on how the prices for items in the household budget differ between various
communities and Anchorage. It is the blend of HCS and RPS data – the combination of consumption
differences and price differences – that produces the geographic cost differential.

RETAIL PRICE SURVEY
The RPS included 634 retail outlets in 58 communities throughout Alaska, plus numerous providers of various
services, including health care, transportation, communications, insurance, and others. Each of the items in a
household market basket of approximately 200 goods and services was priced in each community where the
item was available.

HOUSEHOLD CONSUMPTION SURVEY
The HCS included 2,547 surveys with randomly selected households in 74 communities throughout Alaska.
Sample “blocks” were defined for purposes of sample distribution and to ensure sufficient sample sizes in
various regions and among communities with common demographic and geographic characteristics.

Well, Jeff, I have always found that wild game tastes a lot sweeter when it is garnished with a lot of green. To each his own.

Well Dirt I found life to be alot sweeter when you are not labled as the "greedy guide" I have seen lodges burned to the ground in these parts and members of the community pretty much blackballed and hated...you live in the land of guides so its no biggy, its a differant story out here....to each his own is right.

Anymore I try to time fuel buys when price is down. Got burned a few years back buying eight drums at $4.46 in July. I was still burning $4.46 in January when the price was down to $2.50 or so. Maybe we can work something out in February or March. I will be making a run in January to drop off marten at Wasilla, and I'll back haul three drums then at whatever the price is delivered to the landing. Thanks for the offer.

Sounds like a lot of hate.

Jigger for setting a net under the ice.

Sad too Dirt, as their moose population is so large that the season is open 8 months a year with two moose per person, only one antlered bull during the fall only. Guiding could provide a great income to the villagers. Lots of guys in ANC would pay to come out and have a boat ride to shoot a moose. Not like it would harm the villagers chances of getting a moose like they believe.

Its not sad its a good thing to have a stable moose population and not have to worry about meat.. why let some sky hoes that wont even live here fly in and sell it all off? history tends to repeat itself.

I would not want to show up at my favorite hunting spot and have a guy selling moose there...but thats just me.

At least one guide flying people in up there is accessing areas not even accessible by any other means except cub on tundra tires. Unless your flying a cub I guess your not really going to show up to his spot and find him selling a moose are ya.

So if flying someone in and "selling a moose" makes the person a sky hoe, then I guess we are all snowmachine hoes since we sell our fur we trap.....

I once read an editorial in the ADN by a guy who claimed that all the moose were wiped out by guys from town driving up and down the highway out here road hunting. I'm still looking for this highway.

Yes we know the corp here ran em off a lake that was a important subsistance hunting area near the village a couple years ago he
was competing with subsistance hunters, I seen his plane making trip after trip all fall selling moose..if he wants to stay away from the subsistance hunters I doint see a problem..but we went through a 5 year closeure of moose hunting so what?...the sky hoes can come in and sell the moose we saved?

By the way how is your moose populations doing Fish?...how about you Dirt? I dont think you can argue with our success.

And fish if Lynx meat was as important of food source as moose I would be happy to give away the meat or not sell them at all.

That's probably how those upriver guys felt when Lower Yukon had it's moratorium going for 7 years and all of the down river guys showed up.

Ours is coming back nicely, it was not the guides causing the problems here, it was and is a few bad locals poaching the cows whenever they see one that is/was causing the problems.

....Except we were trying to eat NOT sell them.

sorry got to go..I am getting outnumberd by the guids now