Nearly everyone agrees that Alaska’s declining caribou population ... That 94% population loss led state officials to prohibit hunting of the caribou herd since 2021. But hunting predators ...

That's how it is in Alaska's most remote national parks, and Kobuk Valley is no exception. The upside? No crowds, unless you count the half-million caribou ... and the Hunt River Dunes.

Having read dozens of stories by Jack O’Connor in Outdoor Life magazine when I grew up, a hunt in Alaska for moose or sheep was a dream of mine since ...