The Alaska Department of Fish and Game is preemptively canceling the Nelchina caribou hunt, one of the most popular hunts in the state, citing low population estimates for the herd. The decision ...

A popular road system caribou hunt has been called off the Alaska Department Fish and Game after it reported low population estimates, according an emergency notice posted Friday.

Despite their low harvest numbers and existing federal land closures, some aim to eliminate non-resident caribou hunting in Northwest Alaska.

Decades of caribou research show the proposed road would disrupt migration, fragment habitat and harm food security in rural Alaska.

A caribou from the Central Arctic herd crosses a road within the Kuparuk oil field on the North Slope of Alaska in the summer of 2019, during the mosquito harassment period.