...caused 90 percent of the bank erosion in the Kenai River. More to the point, the head of the state Sportfish Division, Kelly Hepler, robbed $50,000 of funding from the Kenai River boat wake study in 2001, passing it along to Board of Fish chairman...

...tapped Division of Subsistence Director Craig Fleener as deputy commissioner and former Sport Fish Division Director Kelly Hepler as assistant commissioner. Sue Aspelund is acting Commercial Fishing Division director and Jim Simon is the acting...

...decision and that truly this is the best information we have available to us." Newly appointed assistant commissioner Kelly Hepler, Swanton's predecessor as director of sport fishing and most recently special assistant to previous commissioner...

...the winter king salmon regs he pushed for with board member Larry Engel and and the head of the Sport Fish Division, Kelly Hepler. You really need to separate the wheat from chaff here and recognize what is good for the board. Certainly not more...

...caught, with 56 being kept and 41 released. The event featured education programs and recognition for excellence. Kelly Hepler, Sport Fish Director for Alaska Department of Fish and Game who is retiring in August, received the ?Spirit of the...

...stocked for anglers to catch. ''It's a situation which we have to correct,'' Division of Sport Fish director Kelly Hepler said. The state has already submitted a request to Sen. Ted Stevens for $4 million to build a pipeline to pump warm...