At the upcoming March 17-22 Southcentral Region Board of Game meeting in Soldotna, the board will vote on a board-generated proposal to close all sheep hunting for five years in Unit 19C in the ...
Dall sheep season opens in Alaska on Aug. 10 and runs through Sept. 20. According to Alaska hunting regulations, throughout much of the state, only rams with full curl horns (meaning those that fully ...
Matt Yernatich had made Alaskan hunting trips before. But in September of 2009, he flew to the South Slope of Alaska’s Brooks Range for a hunt that would top all the others. Yernatich spends most of ...
The Federal Subsistence Board last week closed Dall sheep hunting on federal lands in the Central Brooks Range for the next two years. The FSB voted unanimously to close Game Management Units 24A and ...
Thinhorn refers to the rare Stone’s sheep of northwest Canada and more common Dall’s sheep that live in Canada, the Yukon and Alaska. They are distantly related to the bighorn sheep that live in ...
Not many have seen Dall’s sheep like this before. That’s because wildlife photographer and videographer Nick of nick_in_alaska uses a drone to capture the alpine sheep high up on a mountainside ...
The stench of wildfire smoke burned our nostrils as we unbuckled our sweaty pack belts. We’d hiked only a handful of miles but before either of us spoke, my buddy Frank Schultz and I both knew we ...
Years ago, when I lived on Anchorage’s Hillside, I would sometimes watch Dall sheep from my front yard. Even through binoculars, they were small white dots on the green or brown slopes below a Chugach ...
IT WAS THE KIND of day best spent in a tent. Freezing rain drizzled relentlessly on the drab tans and browns of an Arctic autumn. The clouds and fog made it just as difficult to see our tent 1,000 ...