Seward District Ranger Ruth D’Amico, under authority delegated by the Federal Subsistence Board, is restricting the Unit 7 federal subsistence caribou registration hunt to the harvest of bulls only. The restriction will be effective from 12:01 a.m. on Monday August 10,...
Biologists with the Alaska Department of Fish & Game in Douglas announce an early closure to the mountain goat hunting season under the state registration permit hunt RG013, for that portion of Unit 1C north of Windham Bay, west of Spruce...
Smith’s remains were positively identified by DNA analysis. In February 2026, MMIP Investigators had occasion to find and collect a half dozen family reference samples, during an effort to identify a group of missing persons from the Dillingham and Togiak area. When...
Forest Service conducted a survey in September 2016 and observed 19 total goats, and August of 2019 observed 46 goats. On September 23, 2025, the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe conducted an aerial survey using an A-Star helicopter and counted 75 goats (66...
The trapping season has no bag limit while the hunting season has a bag limit of two (2) lynx. Observations and sealing records indicate lynx populations on the Kenai Peninsula remain at a level that justifies continued opening of lynx trapping...
All stranded muskoxen on the island have been successfully harvested under the emergency order issued pursuant to 5 AAC 92.046. The Department opened the limited resident permit hunt on July 22, 2026, after determining the animals faced little chance of survival...
The following is courtesy of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game: Baranof Island Mt. Goat Hunting (Sitka) – The 2026 mountain goat season begins Friday, August 1st. Registration permits are now available. Managers were unable to conduct an island-wide survey in...
“Climate change is already making the geese and other birds more and more scarce. With a road through Izembek, that could get worse,” said Chief Edgar Tall Sr. of the Native Village of Hooper Bay. “My community depends on subsistence hunting...
