Alaska Administrative Code › Title 5 - Fish and Game › Part 3 - Game › Chapter 92 - Statewide Provisions › Article 5 - Intensive Management and Predator Control › 5 AAC 92.108 - Identified big game prey populations and objectives

Current through May 31, 2024
For purposes of implementing
					 AS
					 16.05.255(e) - (g), the
					 Board of Game has made the following findings on whether the listed big game
					 prey populations, or portions of those populations, are identified as important
					 for providing high levels of harvest for human consumptive use, and has
					 established the following population and harvest objectives:
Population                 Finding             Population        Harvest
Deer
GMU 1 (A)                  Positive                15,000            700

GMU 1 (B)                  Negative

GMU 1 (C)                  Positive                 6,200            450

GMU 1 (D)                  Negative

GMU 2                      Positive                71,000          2,700

GMU 3                      Positive                15,000            900

GMU 4                      Positive               125,000          7,800

GMU 5                      Negative

GMU 6                      Positive       24,000 - 28,000  2,200 - 3,000

GMU 8                      Positive       70,000 - 75,000  8,000 - 8,500
Caribou Herds
Adak                       Negative

Beaver Mountain            Negative

Central Arctic             Positive       28,000 - 32,000  1,400 - 1,600

Chisana                    Negative

Delta                      Negative         

Denali                     Negative

Farewell/Big River         Negative

Fortymile                  Positive      50,000 - 100,000 1,000 - 15,000

Galena Mountain            Negative

Kenai Lowlands             Negative

Kenai Mountains            Negative

Killey River,

Fox River, and

Twin Lakes                 Negative

Macomb                     Positive             600 - 800        30 - 50

Mentasta                   Negative

Mulchatna                  Positive       30,000 - 80,000  2,400 - 8,000

Nelchina                   Positive       35,000 - 40,000  3,000 - 6,000

Northern Alaska

Peninsula                  Positive        6,000 - 15,000    600 - 1,500

Nushagak Peninsula         Negative

Porcupine                  Positive     100,000 - 150,000  1,500 - 2,000

Rainy Pass                 Negative

Ray Mountain               Negative

Southern Alaska

Peninsula                  Positive         1,500 - 4,000      150 - 200

Sunshine Mountain          Negative

Teshekpuk                  Positive       15,000 - 28,000    900 - 2,800

Tonzona                    Negative

Unimak Island              Negative

Western Arctic             Positive      at least 200,00012,000 - 20,000

White Mountain             Negative

Wolf Mountain              Negative
Moose
GMU 1(A)                   Negative

GMU 1(B)-Stikine River     Negative

GMU 1(B)-Thomas Bay        Negative

GMU 1(C)-Berners Bay       Negative

GMU 1(C)-Chilkat Range     Negative

GMU 1(C)-Taku              Negative

GMU 1(D)                   Negative

GMU 3                      Negative

GMU 5(A)-Nunatak Bench     Negative

GMU 5(A)-Yakutat           Negative

Forelands

GMU 5(B)-Malaspina         Negative

Forelands

GMU 6(A)                   Negative

GMU 6(B)                   Negative

GMU 6(C)                   Negative

GMU 7                      Negative

GMU 9(A)                   Negative

GMU 9(B)                   Positive         2,000 - 2,500      100 - 250

GMU 9(C) and 9(E)          Positive         3,000 - 3,700      165 - 320

GMU 9(D)                   Negative

GMU 11                     Negative

GMU 12                     Positive         4,000 - 6,000      150 - 300

GMU 13(A)                  Positive         3,500 - 4,200      210 - 420

GMU 13(B)                  Positive         5,300 - 6,300      310 - 620

GMU 13(C)                  Positive         2,000 - 3,000      155 - 350

GMU 13(D)                  Positive         1,200 - 1,900       75 - 190

GMU 13(E)                  Positive         5,000 - 6,000      300 - 600

GMU 14(A)                  Positive         6,000 - 6,500      360 - 750

GMU 14(B)                  Positive         2,500 - 2,800      100 - 200

GMU 14(C)                  Positive         1,500 - 1,800       90 - 270

GMU 15(A)                  Positive         3,000 - 3,500      180 - 350

GMU 15(B)                  Negative

GMU 15(C)                  Positive         2,500 - 3,500      200 - 350

GMU 16(A)                  Positive         3,500 - 4,000      190 - 360

GMU 16(B) (mainland)       Positive         6,500 - 7,500      310 - 600

GMU 16(B) (Kalgin Is.)     Negative

GMU 17(A)                  Negative

GMU 17(B)                  Positive         4,900 - 6,000      200 - 400

GMU 17(C)                  Positive         2,800 - 3,500      165 - 350

GMU 18                     Positive         1,000 - 2,000       60 - 200

GMU 19(A) and 19(B)        Positive       13,500 - 16,500      750 - 950

GMU 19(C)                  Negative

GMU 19(D)-East             Positive         6,000 - 8,000      400 - 600

                                            3,000 - 3,500

GMU 19(D)-remainder        Positive         4,000 - 6,000      250 - 600

GMU 20(A)                  Positive       10,000 - 15,000    		500 - 900

GMU 20(B)                  Positive       12,000 - 15,000    600 - 1,500

GMU 20(C)-outside Denali   Positive         3,000 - 4,000      150 - 400

GMU 20(D)                  Positive        8,000 - 10,000      500 - 700

GMU 20(E)                  Positive        8,000 - 10,000    250 - 500

GMU 20(F)                  Negative

GMU 21(A)                  Negative

GMU 21(B)                  Positive         4,000 - 6,000      200 - 300

GMU 21(C)                  Negative

GMU 21(D)                  Positive        7,000 - 10,000    450 - 1,000

GMU 21(E)                  Positive        9,000 - 11,000    550 - 1,100

GMU 22                     Positive         5,100 - 6,800      300 - 680

GMU 23                     Positive        3,500 -  9,200      210 - 920

GMU 24(A)                  Positive         1,200 - 1,500       75 - 125

GMU 24(B)                  Positive         4,000 - 4,500      150 - 250

GMU 24(C)                  Positive         1,000 - 1,500       50 - 125

GMU 24(D)                  Positive         5,000 - 6,000      225 - 425

GMU 25(A)                  Negative

GMU 25(B)                  Negative

GMU 25(C)                  Negative

GMU 25(D)                  Positive       10,000 - 15,000    600 - 1,500

GMU 26(A)                  Negative

GMU 26(B)                  Negative

GMU 26(C)                  Negative
Authority:
AS
						16.05.255
AS
						16.05.258
AS
						16.05.270