Alaska Congressman Nick Begich III took a break last year from campaigning for Congress to hunt for Kodiak brown bear on Kodiak Island. He had just finished attending the Alaska Republican convention, where he had a tremendous reception from delegates. And then he had a successful hunt. It was a good month.
Now, as the congressman for Alaska, his office in Washington, D.C. needed some decor to remind him of home. The brown bear hide has taken its place on the wall of his office in the Cannon Office Building.
Alaska Sen. Dan Sullivan has a similar brown bear hide on the wall of his office in the Hart Building. So did the late Congressman Don Young, who served Alaska in Congress for 49 years and whose office was legendary for taxidermy mounts. Sen. Lisa Murkowski has Native art, masks, and regalia as her Alaska theme.
