Afognak Island elk are managed using established harvest guidelines for individual herds and a 10 percent harvest objective for the overall elk population. A harvest objective of 44 elk was established for the closed portion of the hunt area in this...
This hunt is intended to support communities impacted by Typhoon Halong’s devastating storm surges in October 2025. The typhoon destroyed homes, displaced over 1,000 residents, and ruined critical subsistence food stores in Yukon- Kuskokwim Delta villages, threatening winter food security....
As a conservation measure, the RC867 hunt in Zones 1 and 4 will only open if caribou numbers near the Steese highway decrease enough to avoid overharvest of the herd. If zones 1 and 4 of the RC867 hunt have not...
The closed portions of the RE755 hunt area include; Southwest Afognak, that portion of Afognak Island and adjacent islands south and west of a line from the head of Back Bay (58° 05.3’ N. lat.,152° 45.7’ W. long.) to Hatchery Peak (58°...
The strategy of closing hunt zones when one female has been harvested has been very effective in reducing female harvest and has helped maintain high harvest opportunities for male goats. Keeping hunters focused on avoiding female harvest maintains opportunities for more...
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...
In GMU 2, most wolves are harvested by trapping. To ensure a sustainable harvest, state and federal managers use an adaptive management strategy, by varying trapping season length. Since the plan’s implementation in 2019, the season length has varied from 21–62...
