** Search for Ex Deputy Fish & Game Commissioner on Admiralty Isl. AK **

Tue Dec 03 12:57:40 1996
From: Bruce_Bowler@dot.state.ak.us
Subject: 12/3 Anchorage Daily News
METRO SECTION:
 
 MISSING HUNTER FOUND
 
 The Associated Press
    JUNEAU -- The man who ran Arliss Sturgulweski's 1990
 gubernatorial campaign was found by searchers Monday after he
 failed to meet up with his hunting party on Admiralty Island.
 McKie Campbell made it to a beach on the island after he realized
 he was lost.
    Campbell, 46, was found shortly after 11 a.m. in good condition
 by searchers, and was flown back to Juneau by an Army National
 Guard helicopter.
    "I'm very embarrassed," he said Monday. "I'm humbled and very
 grateful."
    Campbell was reported missing after he failed to hook up with
 his hunting party Sunday during a trip to Doty Cove -- about 15
 miles southeast of Juneau on Admiralty Island. On Monday, a Coast
 Guard boat deposited Alaska State Troopers, searchers from Juneau
 Search and Rescue, SEADOGS and some of his friends on a beach to
look for him.
    Campbell said he went up a ridge on the Glass Peninsula, and
 rather than coming down the eastern, Stephens Passage side of the
 peninsula, found himself looking at Seymour Canal on the west
 side. About 12:30 p.m. Sunday, he realized he was lost, and
 started hiking east.
    Campbell, an experienced hunter, had a map, a compass, an
 emergency blanket, a fire starter and a small saw.
    "I just went east from there," he said. "I hiked until about
 midnight. I was very fortunate. It was cold, below freezing, but
 in general I was very fortunate about the weather."
    He fashioned a bed out of spruce, slept until about 5 a.m., and
 walked to the beach.
    There, he found the searchers.
    Campbell served on the Juneau Assembly from 1987 to 1989 and
 worked as an assistant to the commissioner of the state Department
 of Fish and Game starting in 1991. After working in Gov. Wally
 Hickel's office for a time, he was a deputy Fish and Game
 commissioner in 1993 and 1994.
    Campbell ran the unsuccessful gubernatorial campaign of
 Republican Arliss Sturgulewski in 1990, said Chip Wagoner, a
 Juneau attorney who helped with the campaign.
    Campbell has been working as a Juneau consultant for CH2M Hill
 Inc.

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