Afognak Island elk are managed using established harvest guidelines for individual herds and a 10 percent harvest objective for the overall elk population. As of October 18, hunters have reported a combined harvest of 41 elk from the Southwest Afognak hunt...
This year in installed a new StealthCam DS4K camera at my Rut Pit location. I captured some very interesting moose behavior as well as some fascinating interactions between moose. Additionally, the grizzly bear presence in the area has increased and...
“The mountains and surrounding wilderness inspire us to brew beers that are super drinkable for us and our friends after biking, hiking, fishing, skiing, snowmachining or just hanging out on a beach,” says Josh Hegna....
Over nearly a decade of living on the North Slope – where my wife Tiffany and I worked as school teachers in two remote villages – I enjoyed exceptional hunting. What the Arctic lacked in some species was made up for...
Examples of projects approved this year include: Sitka Tribe of Alaska (Artificial Intelligence for Subsistence Salmon Monitoring and Management) - $200,000 to install artificial intelligence enabled video that will produce automated real-time counts of Redoubt Lake sockeye salmon, reducing real-time monitoring costs....
Late-season harvest opportunities are based on success rates during the drawing hunt season. Goat harvest objective points are calculated using one point for a billy and two points for a nanny. Hunters are reminded that the bag limit is one goat...
“I had never been anywhere like it,” Waterman writes in his soon-to-be-released Into The Thaw when describing an August 1983 Noatak adventure with ranger Dave Buchanan. “We were surrounded by snowy peaks that could have been a mile or perhaps 5 miles off...
" The goal of this plan is to recover the brown bear population and future sustainable hunting opportunity. The plan does that by temporarily reducing hunting mortality through a harvest cap and by seeking to reduce human-bear conflict that results in...
