Friends and colleagues Tuesday fondly remembered former Homer City Council member Dennis Novak.

Novak, 71, was found dead Monday afternoon in a well near his home and business, the Bay View Inn on the Sterling Highway.

“The city of Homer is shocked and deeply saddened by the loss of Councilman Novak,” said Homer City Manager Walt Wrede. “He gave a lot of his time and his heart to the city of Homer. He was a friend to all of us. He is truly going to be missed.”

In a 9-1 vote last week, the Homer Fish and Game Advisory Committee recommended that the Board of Game not approve two intensive management proposals that include aerial wolf control.

Vice Chair Tom Young said he voted against the wolf control proposals because they address the wrong cause.

“The limiting factor on moose we can support on the peninsula is environmental,” he said. “It’s habitat.”

Young also said the Board of Game had already approved spike-fork and antler-length restrictions on bull moose that addresses low bull-cow ratios.

The Alaska Board of Game last Friday released its proposed intensive management plans for moose populations that include aerial wolf control for game Unit 15A, on the upper Kenai Peninsula, and Unit 15C on the lower peninsula north of Kachemak Bay. Presented as proposals on the Nov. 11-14 Arctic Region Board of Game meeting in Barrow, Proposal 35 is the intensive management plan for Unit 15A and Proposal 36 is the plan for Unit 15C. The board could approve, modify, reject or table the plans.

In 2007, French artist JR pushed the envelope of controversy with his "Face 2 Face" project, where he photographed Israelis and Palestinians and then posted huge portraits of them on opposite sides of the walls separating Palestinian and Israelis areas.

Inspired by JR's Inside Out projects, Homer and California artist Lauryn Axelrod sought a subject she thought would be less contentious. Hang out on the docks, chat up area fishermen and mariners, take their photos and then post them around town was the idea of "Faces of Fishing."

She got an earful.