"Each year, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game (ADF&G) publishes a Draw Hunt Supplement with specific information containing the drawing hunt opportunities and area boundaries. ADF&G has returned to having a single application period each year during November and December."...
The harvest quota of 100 caribou was not met during the fall season. The winter season will close on December 31, 2025, at 11:59 pm for nonresidents and March 31, 2026, at 11:59 pm for residents, or until closed by emergency...
“Since we started this strategy in 2019, we’ve seen an average harvest of 30% of the estimated population, which has proven sustainable so far,” said Anthony Crupi, Regional Supervisor for ADF&G. “If conditions change going forward and our analysis determines less or more...
Conditions during the open season for drawing permit hunts DG471, DG472 and DG479 created optimal hunting conditions resulting in high hunter success. Consequently, the harvest objective within these hunt areas was met during the drawing hunt and registration hunt RG471 (Wild...
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...
