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 – ...

Several people spoke up last week about a proposal to reduce the bag limit for Western Arctic Caribou on federal lands. The Federal Subsistence Board held a public listening session last week about ...

State game managers reduced bag limits for subsistence and nonresident hunters this week to preserve the declining Western Arctic Caribou Herd. The Alaska Board of Game concluded its meeting in ...

A caribou skull is seen on Feb. 21, 2012, on the frozen tundra in Bering Land Bridge National Preserve. The preserve is part of the range historically used by the Western Arctic Caribou Herd. That ...

Alaska’s vast wilderness has long been a haven for hunters seeking adventure and the chance to pursue big game in one of the most rugged landscapes in the world. For the 2025-2026 hunting season, the ...

At the age of 91, when most people are just happy to get out of bed in the morning, Roy Brewington went caribou hunting in Alaska. "It was the best hunt I ever had," he says. while relaxing at the ...

A group of Western Arctic Herd caribou pause in front of mountains in Kobuk Valley National Park during fall migration in 2016. The Western Arctic herd, one of the largest in the world, has been in ...

For millennia Indigenous communities have relied on the far north's caribou herds for sustenance. But as the herds dwindle, the future becomes difficult to predict. Caribou, or tutu in Inupiat, ...