The lead guide and two assistants from an Anchorage-based guide service have been charged with aiding clients with improperly killing brown bears. The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner reports that lead Branham Adventures guide Chris Branham, as well as assistant guides Todd Kuster and Daniel Suprak, were each charged with aiding clients in killing bears without proper licensing. The charges are class A misdemeanors. Alaska State Troopers say five clients hunted for the bears under supervision of the three guides in Game Management Unit 9 covering the Alaska Peninsula from Lake Clark National Park to False Pass. Troopers say they also hunted on Sanak and Shumagin islands. Hunters in Unit 9 need registration permits to hunting brown bears. Troopers say three hunters killed brown bears and did not possess permits while under the guides' supervision.
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