Rocker Ted Nugent is scheduled for a court hearing in Alaska on Tuesday, when he is expected to plead guilty to transporting a black bear he illegally killed.

The conservative activist and gun rights advocate signed a plea agreement with federal prosecutors that was filed Friday in U.S. District Court. Nugent was set to participate by telephone in Tuesday’s U.S. District Court proceeding in the southeast Alaska town of Ketchikan, his attorney said.

The plea agreement says Nugent illegally shot and killed the bear in May 2009 on Sukkwan Island in southeast Alaska days after he wounded a bear in a bow hunt, which counted toward a state seasonal limit of one bear for that location. The agreement says Nugent knowingly possessed and transported the bear in misdemeanor violation of the Lacey Act.

According to the agreement, the six-day hunt was filmed for Nugent’s Outdoor Channel television show “Spirit of the Wild.’’

Nugent’s Anchorage attorney, Wayne Anthony Ross, said Monday that his client didn’t know he was breaking the law, which went into effect four or five years ago. Ross, an assistant hunting guide in Alaska, said he didn’t know about the rule either.

Besides, the first bear left only traces of blood, as if it had just been scraped by the projectile, according to Ross.

Nugent is going with a guilty plea, however, because “the law is the law,’’ Ross said.

“What are you going to do about it — a magician act?’’ he said. “The fact that we didn’t know about it doesn’t change it.’’

Broadcasting footage of the hunt on his TV show also shows Nugent didn’t know he was in the wrong, said Ross, who sits with Nugent on the National Rifle Association’s board of directors.

“It’s kind of embarrassing for him because he practices ethical hunting and advocated ethical hunting and gets caught up in a crazy law that none of us have heard about,’’ Ross said.