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Hunting Alaska
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If you are planning to spend the night outdoors in a tent in Alaska, get a good one. Get a really good one, Mike Strahan points out in this month's hunting tip. It's possible to get by most of the time with an inexpensive tent, but when the conditions go really bad, it's possible to lose one's life without good shelter.
Note the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation fund raising event on November 19 at the Captain Cook in Anchorage. RMEF is one of a number of hunter-conservation organizations that is worthy of support. Speaking of worthwhile organizations, Fairbanks area hunters should consider supporting the Alaska Outdoor Council at the Fairbanks banquet and auction on November 12. Good luck hunting this month.....David
David M Johnson Tent Tips
Tents for Alaska hunting fall into one of two main categories; spacious tents you can stand in, or low-profile mountaineering tents. The larger tents are best suited to low or timbered country where they can be parked amid sheltering vegetation. The latter types can be used anywhere, but are well suited for exposed, treeless areas where wind is a problem. Regardless of which type of tent you need, there are some basic features you should consider.
Choose your tent carefully; that way, you’ll be prepared for whatever weather
Alaska throws your way.
NEWS: October 31, 2005 -- The Division of Wildlife Conservation closed the Lake George area permit hunt RG879 on October 29, 2005. ARTICLES: October 30, 2005 -- Anchorage Daily News Outdoor Writer Craig Medred writes in today's paper that portable electric fences can be effective barriers to keep bears out of camps. This has also been thoroughly discussed on the Alaska Hunting Forum in the past, and revisited today. EVENTS: October 29, 2005 -- The Alaska Chapter of the Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation is putting on a fund-raising banquet November 19, 2005 at 5:30 PM at the Captain Cook in downtown Anchorage. There will be auctions, raffles, drawings, prizes, and hunt trips in the USA and abroad. There are over 20 guns to be won. For information and tickets contact Toni Miller 333-3203. Events are also planned for Wasilla (1/21/06) and Sitka (3/11/06). NEWS: October 28, 2005 -- The Skilak Loop area on the Kenai Peninsula really IS closed to small game hunting with a firearm, even with state hunting regulations saying that it is open. The area has been closed under a Board of Game emergency decision. NEWS: October 25, 2005 -- The 20-Mile drainage mountain goat registration permit hunt (RG878) closed on October 21, 2005. Seven "goat units" were taken. In southeast Alaska, ADFG closed a portion of goat hunt RG204 in GMU1D on October 20 after the harvest quota was exceeded. NEWS: October 21, 2005 -- The Federal Subsistence Board is taking public comment on whether 10 Alaska communities and areas should be considered rural through October 28. The communities are Kodiak, Sitka, Adak, Fairbanks North Star Borough, Kenai, Seward, Wasilla, Homer, Ketchikan, and the Delta Junction area. NEWS: October 17, 2005 -- The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is considering a November, 2005 open season for elk on Etolin and Zarembo islands in central southeast Alaska. The hunt will take place if the agency finds that additional harvest could take place based on permit hunt results. NEWS: October 13, 2005 -- A public hearing in Fairbanks on an Alaska State Senate bill to lift ORV regulations along the Dalton Highway was well attended and most were opposed to the concept, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. The issue has also generated lively debate on the Alaska Hunting Forum, and here, too, most who have posted are opposed. NEWS: October 11, 2005 -- The Alaska Division of Wildlife Conservation has closed several registration hunts. They include: a goat registration hunt RG248 in GMU 6D near Valdez, a portion of another registration goat hunt in GMU 6D, a goat hunt in a portion of GMU 1D near Haines, and the brown bear registration permit hunt RB362 near Cold Bay on the Alaska Peninsula in GMU 9D, The Division also announced that the scheduled October 15-31 Kenai Peninsula brown bear hunt in GMU 7 & 15 will not open. EVENTS: October 11, 2005 -- Two Alaska Outdoor Council banquet / fundraiser events are scheduled for this fall. The Mat/Su event will be on October 29, and the Fairbanks on November 12. AOC is the principal supporter of outdoor pursuits in Alaska. NEWS: October 8, 2005 -- The Alaska Outdoor Council is making sure that Alaskan outdoor people know about a couple of soon-coming public hearings for pending state legislation that will affect hunters, anglers and ORV users. One bill would affect the way ADF&G manages fish and game resources; the other would repeal the ban on ORV use along the Dalton Highway (Haul Road). NEWS: October 8, 2005 -- The Alaska Board of Game has announced it is accepting proposals for changes in a portion of the hunting regulations. The proposals will be considered at its winter meeting in Anchorage, and the proposals must be received by November 18. The Board will address only statewide regulations at this meeting. NEWS: October 8, 2005 -- A portion of the Tanana Flats antlerless moose hunt has been closed after only three days, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Biologists saw hunters rapidly closing in the the quota for that section of GMU 20A south of Fairbanks. INFORMATION: October 6, 2005 -- Cow moose are important in the population, but it's possible to have too much of a good thing, according to an ADFG article in this month's Alaska Wildlife News. The article does a succinct job of pointing out why sometimes harvesting cows is a good thing and sometimes it's not wise. INFORMATION: October 6, 2005 -- In the "in case you need just one more reason to hunt" category, ADFG has published an interesting report showing that wild game is both healthy to pursue and healthy to eat. Furthermore, eating wild game is more environment friendly than other commonly eaten foods when energy, land use and pollution costs are considered. INFORMATION: October 6, 2005 -- Counting the Nelchina caribou herd is the subject of a brief article in the ADFG publication, Alaska Wildlife News. NEWS: October 6, 2005 -- The Alaska Division of Wildlife Conservation has closed the subsistence muskox hunting season in a part of GMU 23. What makes this story interesting is that the quota of six muskox were not taken by real hunters, but by poachers -- who left the muskox to rot. Given the small size of the population, and the preponderance of cows in the slaughter, the state closed the hunt. NEWS: October 3, 2005 -- Antlerless moose harvest near Fairbanks is still small even with many cows in the area, says Don Young, Fairbanks Area Biologist, according to the Fairbanks Daily News-Miner. Young reports a still relatively small harvest from the antlerless moose hunt in GMU 20A south of Fairbanks, even from a large population with many cows. The harvest is expected to increase as more accessible areas open during the course of the hunt. Alaska hunting news from September 2005 >>> DIRECTORY: 31 October, 2005: Alaska Wilderness Arts & Taxidermy 2944 Richardson Hwy Suite B-Dept. OA, North Pole, Alaska 99705. Tel. 907-488-9307 FAX: 907-488-9307. E-mail: akwataxidermy@gci.net World class wildlife artistry and taxidermist Charles Livingston has created detailed craftmanship for over 30 years. Specializing in custom action fish reproduction. From life size big game mounts to realistic gamefish skin and reproductions: we do wildlife art that lasts a lifetime. Bear rugs are a specialty with us. Drop us an email today for more information! FORUMS: 28 October 2005: We have changed the look of the forum section of the website. This solved two issues: 1) the forums now look like part of the website, instead of something different; and 2) Google advertising has become a significant part of website revenue, and the change to white allows us to better match the advertising to the pages. PRODUCTS: 27 October 2005: We added an additional book catalog today called "Alaskana." This catalog covers books about living in Alaska. Some of these also appear in the hunting or the fishing catalog as they touch on these subjects. If you are interested in books about Alaska living, take a look at this new catalog.
PRODUCTS: 27 October 2005: Paddling the Yukon River A guide to paddling across Alaska and the Yukon Territory on the Yukon, Tanana, Porcupine, and Koyukuk Rivers plus the Kuskokwin River
PRODUCTS:
19 October 2005:
Hunt High Inside you'll find
a bountiful package of high country hunting lore and "how to"
information including: more information on hunting the mountain goat
that can be found in any other book, chapters oh high scoring bighorn
sheep and three chapters on hunting mountain PRODUCTS: 19 October 2005: Predator Calling The definitive book dealing with distress screaming to bring predators and other wild things close to the eye, the gun, or the camera.
PRODUCTS: 18 October 2005: Sheep Stalking in Alaska Learn to blind stalk from above, stalk from below, maneuver to get above the sheep, approach horizontally, PLUS get within bow range of Dall sheep. Tony Russ shows and tells the hunters how to stalk within range of Dall sheep with any hunting weapon. NEWSLETTERS: 6 October 2005: More tips have been added to this month's Alaska fishing news and Alaska hunting news. Selecting a tent for hunting in Alaska's bush is a serious matter, explains Mike Strahan in the hunting news. Care of the waders that kept you dry all summer is worth the extra effort to do right Bernard Rosenberg tells in the fishing news. These newsletters are added to during the month, and they can be read online. It is also possible to have the newsletters sent to you each month by email. They are free.
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