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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.

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.

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.

PART I: When a caribou herd wandered close to Point Hope in summer 2008, hunters pursued the animals as they have for generations. But something went wrong. Caribou were killed and left to rot.

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game will close the Nelchina caribou herd hunt RC561 by emergency order at 11:59 p.m. Wednesday. The harvest quota of 140 bulls has been met, so the hunt will ...

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 ...

I consider caribou the most spectacular animal I've hunted with bow and arrow. With his towering, heavily palmated antlers and his snowy white cape, the caribou more than any other animal on the ...

“If a bull’s still in velvet it’s probably not a good one,” Dave Daniels muttered without lifting his eyes from the spotting scope. In the distance a small herd of caribou g… ...