Alaska fisheries and wildlife advisory committees by region and recent activity

Advisory Committees (AC) are local groups that meet to discuss fish and wildlife issues, provide a local forum for those issues, and make recommendations to the Alaska boards of fisheries and game. Their purpose as established by the Joint Boards of Fisheries and Game includes developing regulatory proposals, evaluating regulatory proposals and making recommendations to the appropriate board, providing a local forum for fish and wildlife conservation and use, and consulting with individuals, organizations, and agencies that relate to the Board of Fish. In this dataset, data were collected from the Alaska Department of Fish and Game and organized into 13 State of Alaska's Salmon and People (SASAP) regions and 6 AC regions. Data are included about committee activity, number of recent meetings, and urban or rural delineation. The data are stored in ADFGAdvisoryCommittees.csv. AC_analysis.Rmd uses this data to create some visualizations depicting number of meetings by region, by committee type, and budget by committe type. These visualizations are stored to AC_analysis.pdf