Furbearer Species Management Reports and Plans
Report Period: 1 July 2017–30 June 2022
Plan Period: 1 July 2022–30 June 2027
Species management report and plan documents 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 five years 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. Unit reports are reviewed and approved for publication by regional management coordinators. Any information taken from these reports should be cited with credit given to authors and the Alaska Department of Fish and Game. Suggested citations are included in each of the reports.
These reports provide a record of survey and inventory management activities for furbearer species for the five regulatory years 2017–2021 and plans for the five regulatory years 2022–2026. A regulatory year (RY) runs from 1 July through 30 June (e.g., RY17 = 1 July 2017–30 June 2018). These reports are produced primarily to provide agency staff with data and analysis to help guide and record the agency's own efforts, but are also provided to the public to inform it of wildlife management activities. In 2016 the Alaska Department of Fish and Game's Division of Wildlife Conservation launched this new type of 5-year report to report on trends more efficiently and describe potential changes in data collection activities over the next 5 years. They replace the furbearer management reports of survey and inventory activities that were previously produced every 3 years.
These unit reports are published individually, so, although the period covered remains the same for all reports, the year published may differ.
Supplementary Matter
Reports
- Unit 1A — Unit 1 south of Lemesurier Point, including drainages into Behm Canal and excluding drainages into Ernest Sound (PDF 937 kB)
- Unit 1B — Southeast Alaska mainland from Cape Fanshaw to Lemesurier Point
- Unit 1C — Southeast Alaska mainland from Cape Fanshaw to Eldred Rock
- Unit 1D — Southeast Alaska mainland north of Eldred Rock, excluding Sullivan Island and the drainages of Berners Bay
- Unit 2 — Prince of Wales Island and adjacent islands south of Sumner Strait and west of Kashevarof Passage (PDF 767 kB)
- Unit 3 — Islands of Petersburg, Kake and Wrangell areas
- Unit 4 — Admiralty, Baranof, Chichagof, and adjacent islands (PDF 1,593 kB)
- Unit 5 — Cape Fairweather to Icy Bay, eastern Gulf of Alaska coast
- Unit 6 — Prince William Sound and north Gulf of Alaska coast
- Units 7 and 15 — Kenai Peninsula (PDF 3,644 kB)
- Unit 8 — Kodiak and adjacent islands (PDF 654 kB)
- Units 9 and 10 — Alaska Peninsula, Aleutian Islands, and Pribilof Islands (PDF 2,109 kB)
- Units 11 and 13 — Nelchina and Upper Susitna rivers, Wrangell Mountains
- Units 12 and 20E — Upper Tanana, White, upper Yukon, Fortymile, Ladue, and Charley river drainages
- Units 14A and 14B — Eastern Upper Cook Inlet (PDF 976 kB)
- Unit 14C — Anchorage area (PDF 885 kB)
- Unit 16 — West Side of Susitna River and West Side of Cook Inlet
- Unit 17 — Northern Bristol Bay
- Unit 18 — Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta
- Units 19, 21A, and 21E — Portions of the Kuskokwim Innoko, Nowitna, and Yukon River drainages
- Unit 20A, 20B, 20C, 20F, and 25C — Central and lower Tanana Valley and middle Yukon River drainage
- Unit 20D — Central Tanana Valley near Delta Junction
- Units 21B, 21C, 21D, and 24 — Yukon River drainage above Blackburn to Tozitna River including Koyukuk River to Dulbi Slough and the Koyukuk River drainage above the Dulbi River
- Unit 22 — Seward Peninsula and adjacent mainland (PDF 882 kB)
- Unit 23 — Western Brooks Range and Kotzebue Sound
- Units 25A, 25B, and 25D, 26B and 26C — Eastern Interior, eastern Brooks Range, and central and eastern Arctic Slope
- Unit 26A — Western North Slope