Hunting Big Game Hunting A Caribou Hunting Adventure in Alaska, No Guides Required. In Alaska's arctic, late summer kicks off one of the greatest big-game hunts in the world. By Alex Robinson.

"This fall, hunting season, there'll be people hunting caribou in the same place that's happened for 12,000 years," said Lois Dalle-Molle, a research coordinator for the Alaska National Parks.

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Photos of this winter’s hunt and a community’s subsistence way of life. Unlike the high-profile predator hunting in Alaska, Swaney’s hunting is quiet and close-to-home. “When the caribou ...

Also, the quota for this season was cut about 6 percent to 795 caribou shared between the fall (600) and winter (195) seasons. There are three zones for hunt, each with its own quota.

The Teshekpuk Caribou Herd, which spends the entire year on the North Slope, The Teshekpuk Caribou herd grew from 40,000 in 2011 to 61,500 as of 2022, according to the Alaska Department of Fish ...

Because the Nelchina caribou herd is one of few that are accessible by road in Alaska, it has become among the most fought-over subsistence battles.

The state’s Central Arctic herd, which roams an area of north-central Alaska about the size of Ohio, hit a peak of about 70,000 caribou in 2010. It fell to 50,000 in 2013.