Caribou Booms and Busts Twenty-six years before this moment in September 2025, I first chased caribou on the central Canadian tundra. That was an adventure to the Nunavik region of northern Quebec to ...

With retirement on the horizon, I was looking to mark the milestone with a "big hunt" to an exciting place, but suitable for old guys. Conway Marvin of Hosted Hunts in Warroad, Minn., suggested a ...

The hunting opportunities in Alaska are as diverse as the people living here. And choosing the species to pursue on your first hunt in Alaska can be daunting, because there is such a variety of wild ...

About a month into the state winter Fortymile caribou hunt, slightly fewer than 750 animals have been taken. The hunt opened Oct. 27 in all zones, and as of Nov. 26, 729 caribou have been harvested, ...

Alaska’s remote Western Arctic caribou herd has been a heated topic of discussion in recent years. The herd’s declining population has been the catalyst for massive closures of public lands to non – ...

The Alaska Department of Fish and Game issued an emergency order temporarily closing the state fall Fortymile caribou hunt in Zones 1 and 4 at 11:59 p.m. Aug. 31. Caribou hunting in those zones will ...

Growth of the Forty Mile caribou herd in the Eastern Interior has prompted the state to open the winter hunting season Friday, two weeks earlier than normal. The Forty Mile caribou hunt will run for ...

Conor Knighton is back on the trail to our National Parks. This morning, it takes him almost to the ends of the Earth: Despite its name, Gates of the Arctic National Park doesn't have any gates. There ...

The first Tier I caribou hunt of the fall opened about a week ago along the Denali Highway and already it is over. Last season, the Nelchina caribou herd was thousands of animals above what the Alaska ...

The narrow trail climbed gently into the alpine until it reached a rocky rim just before the plateau and the paths of hikers, hunters, caribou and sheep diverged into myriad irregular routes. Julia, ...

The latest estimate for the Western Arctic Caribou Herd is 121,000, a steep drop from 2023. The last time the herd's numbers were this low, Jimmy Carter was president — almost 50 years ago.