ANCHORAGE — An Alaska master hunting guide has been charged with using assistants on snowmobiles to herd grizzly bears toward clients, making it easier for hunters to shoot the animals.
Brian Simpson, 55, of Fairbanks, also is charged with guiding on a national preserve without a permit.
Simpson is charged with two counts of aiding in the commission of a state game violation and three counts of guiding on federal land without authorization. All five counts are misdemeanors.
Two assistant guides working for Simpson are charged with using motorized vehicles to drive or herd game.
The charges stem from spring hunting trips last year in western Alaska, according to the Office of Special Prosecutions.
In a complaint filed this month, prosecutors said two hunting clients in April 2016 arrived in Shishmaref and traveled to Serpentine Hot Springs within Bering Land Bridge National Preserve.
On April 26, according to the complaint, the hunting party spotted a bear and Simpson ordered an assistant to “turn it around.” The assistant used a snowmobile to chase the bear in deep snow, trailing from 30 yards behind, until it was tired. The assistant guide then chased the bear toward the hunter. One of the hunters shot the bear from 150 yards away.
A similar scenario played out two days later, according to the complaint.
After a hunting party guided by Simpson spotted a bear, a second assistant guide chased the animal with a snowmobile, cut it off from escaping and herded it toward the hunting party. A hunting client shot the second bear.
An arraignment for Simpson is scheduled for Sept. 15 in Nome.
Exposing the Big Game 
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Herd this jerk right into jail with a snow mobile but make sure he gets really tired and what a despicable being for behaving in such an unsportsmanlike way
Loser ! For causing grief and misery to others
Surprised? Welcome to the filthy outfitter world.
I know some of the good old boys like to run down smaller animals with their snowmobiles for fun. Herding grizzlies is a new one on me. Why am I not surprised, though? If they could get the bears trained well enough to go right to the pickup trucks, the nimrods wouldn’t have to haul their fat backsides out in the cold to shoot.
Vile. And what kind of ‘hunter’ could have any pride or self-respect knowing the only way he could get an animal is not by skill but by cheating? Someone who has no pride or self-respect, and only greed. They don’t even care that they cheat – in fact, cheating is the way of the world today.
I’m convinced that hunting is a vestige of the days when we needed to hunt and kill to survive, and in the modern times of today, we no longer have those needs with agriculture and technological advances in weapons and other things, but we are still left with the urge to kill only. It has no place in the modern world and should be made illegal, except in the case of hunting for food or in the rare instance when your life is threatened by a T-Rex!
The only punishment that would work, is execution. Anything else is a stupid bullshit game. When the government of China decided that they wanted to protect Pandas, they knew the only method that would work, was the threat of death. And they were right. If they had not done that, the last Panda’s head would probably be mounted on the wall of someone’s den of horrors and murders!