Personally, I leave the bears alone but the others are really good to eat and fun to hunt. I enjoy cruising through there every so often to see what new information they have to offer. If you're ever in Fairbanks drop in and visit them on College Road and pick up some of the great brochures and publications they offer. I love to hunt even though I have never managed to find anything approaching a Boone and Crockett record. Moose Mature bulls can weigh from 1000 to over 1500 lbs.
Mature cows weigh nearly a half ton.
Even calves will weigh over 300 lbs. in September. They have been recorded in all states except Hawaii. In Alaska, black bears occur over most of the forested areas of the state. Brown Bears Alaska has more than 98 percent of the U.S. population of brown bears. Biologists estimate there are about 30,000 of these big bruins in Alaska.