Species Management Report, ADF&G/DWC/SMR-2015-1
Brown bear management report of survey-inventory activities
1 July 2012–30 June 2014
Patricia Harper and Laura A. McCarthy, editors
Many of the activities referenced in this report were funded in part by the Federal Aid in Wildlife Restoration Program, Grants W-33-11 and W-33-12, Project 4.0.
Species management reports provide information about species that are hunted or trapped and management actions, goals, and recommendations for those species. Detailed information is prepared for each species every two or three years, depending on the species, by the area management biologists for game management units in their areas. Reports are not produced for species that are not managed for hunting or trapping or for areas where there is no current or anticipated activity. The individual unit reports are compiled in this statewide report. Unit reports are reviewed and approved for publication by regional management coordinators.Any information taken from this report should be cited with credit given to authors and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Authors are identified at the end of each unit section.
Product names used in this publication are included for completeness but do not constitute product endorsement.
This brown bear management report will be published in stages as chapters become available.
Front Matter
- Cover Pages (PDF 580 kB)
- Brown Bear Range Map
- Game Management Units Map
Chapters
- Chapter 1: Unit 1 — Southeast Alaska, Dixon Entrance to Cape Fairweather (PDF 313 kB)
- Chapter 2: Unit 3 — Southeast Alaska, Islands of the Petersburg, Kake, and Wrangell area (PDF 191 kB)
- Chapter 3: Unit 4 — Admiralty, Baranof, Chichagof, and adjacent islands (PDF 352 kB)
- Chapter 4: Unit 5 — Cape Fairweather to Icy Bay, eastern Gulf of Alaska Coast (PDF 185 kB)
- Chapter 5: Unit 6 — Prince William Sound (PDF 217 kB)
- Chapter 6: Units 7 & 15 — Kenai Peninsula (PDF 83 kB)
- Chapter 7: Unit 8 — Kodiak and adjacent islands (PDF 283 kB)
- Chapter 8: Unit 9 — Alaska Peninsula (PDF 187 kB)
- Chapter 9: Unit 10 — Unimak Island (PDF 164 kB)
- Chapter 10: Unit 11 — Wrangell Mountains (PDF 98 kB)
- Chapter 11: Unit 12 — Upper Tanana and White River drainages (PDF 176 kB)
- Chapter 12: Unit 13 — Nelchina Basin (PDF 156 kB)
- Chapter 13: Units 14A and B — Upper Cook Inlet (PDF 115 kB)
- Chapter 14: Units 14C — Municipality of Anchorage (PDF 83 kB)
- Chapter 15: Unit 16 — West side of Cook Inlet (PDF 194 kB)
- Chapter 16: Unit 17 — Northern Bristol Bay (PDF 191 kB)
- Chapter 17: Unit 18 — Yukon—Kuskokwim Delta (PDF 95 kB)
- Chapter 18: Drainages of the Kuskokwim River upstream from the village of Lower Kalskag, Yukon River drainage from Paimiut upstream to, but not including, the Blackburn Creek drainage, and Innoko River (PDF 591 kB)
- Chapter 19: Units 20A, 20B, 20C, 20F, and 25C — Central and Lower Tanana Valley, Middle Yukon drainages (PDF 247 kB)
- Chapter 20: Unit 20D — Central Tanana Valley near Delta Junction (PDF 112 kB)
- Chapter 21: Unit 20E — Fortymile, Charley, and Ladue River drainages (PDF 179 kB)
- Chapter 22: Units 21B, 21C, 21D and 24 — Middle Yukon River, Koyukuk River, Nowitna River and Melozitna River drainages (PDF 136 kB)
- Chapter 23: Unit 22 — Seward Peninsula and Western Nulato Hills (PDF 140 kB)
- Chapter 24: Unit 23 — Kotzebue Sound and Western Brooks Range (PDF 345 kB)
- Chapter 25: Upper Yukon River drainage and eastern North Slope of the Brooks Range (PDF 357 kB)
- Chapter 26: Unit 26A — Western North Slope (PDF 150 kB)