A former big-game guide was fined $20,000 Friday for several violations of federal wildlife laws.

Haines, Alaska, resident Ronald Martin, 73, is also facing firearms and guiding prohibitions for breaching the territory’s Wildlife Act.

Martin showed a “cavalier disregard for the wildlife laws of the Yukon and Canada,” said Judge John Faulkner.

In September 2009, Martin accompanied a friend from Utah on a moose hunting trip in the Kluane Wildlife Sanctuary, said territorial Crown prosecutor Lee Kirkpatrick.

A Kluane First Nation beneficiary, Martin is permitted to hunt in the region, but his friend was not – nor did he have any licence or permits for hunting in the Yukon.

The friend shot and killed a bull moose.

Martin later had the antlers and cape shipped to the U.S.

Two years later, in 2011, Martin took his grandson hunting in the wildlife sanctuary. His grandson had no ability to hunt in the Yukon, said Kirkpatrick.

The two hunted Dall sheep, killing a ram.

Kirkpatrick said when they crossed the border into Alaska, Martin didn’t fill out an export form.

He kept the sheep’s head in a backpack during transport, and told his grandson not to mention it to border officials.

In April, Martin pleaded guilty to shipping moose antlers and a cape from the Yukon between August and November 2010 and hunting Dall sheep and ptarmigan near the Kluane Wildlife Sanctuary between August and September 2011.

Under the federal Wild Animal and Plant Protection and Regulation of International and Interprovincial Trade Act, Martin also pleaded guilty to 11 charges, including illegal exporting, transporting a grizzly bear hide and providing false or misleading information.

He’s now banned from possessing firearms in the Yukon for five years, and, after that, from carrying any firearm other than a bow for five years.

Martin is also prohibited from accompanying people while hunting for 10 years, and exporting wildlife from the Yukon for 10 years.

He also has been ordered to forfeit trophy mounts and hides.

Martin’s lawyer, Nicholas Weigelt, said his client is a Vietnam War veteran. He’s been guiding for decades – he grew up in an era when hunting was unregulated, Weigelt said.

He is “somewhat old-school,” the lawyer said, and has struggled to adapt to current protocols.

Martin has also been penalized for multiple wildlife infractions in the U.S. His charges were laid in the Yukon after a joint investigation called Operation Bruin between American and Canadian authorities.

“It’s been a long time,” Ryan Hennings, manager of enforcement and compliance for Environment Yukon, said Friday outside the courtroom.

When Hennings first started working in Haines Junction in 1996, he said, some people told him to be aware of Martin hunting in the sanctuary.

“I’m not saying he’s been doing illegal activity all that time, but he’s been hunting and moving back and forth for a couple of decades at least, possibly doing this.

We’re not sure.

“This is a good conviction,” Hennings said. “It protects the Yukon resources.”

For his U.S. offences, Martin was sentenced to a $40,000 fine and probation, which bans him from hunting in the U.S. for four years and the rest of the world for two years.

Prior to that, Martin was fined $10,000 after pleading guilty to two guiding-related charges.

He was ordered to forfeit a PA-18 Piper Supercub airplane, a F250 Ford pickup truck, a Honda ATV - Foreman, and a Kimber .338-calibre rifle.

These items are valued at about $150,000, court heard.

Martin also had to surrender his guide licence for life.