When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Hunting and fishing in Alaska - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_and_fishing_in_Alaska

    Alaskan halibut often weigh over 100 pounds (45 kg). Specimens under 20 pounds (9.1 kg) are often thrown back when caught. With a land area of 586,412 square miles (1,518,800 km 2), not counting the Aleutian islands, Alaska is one-fifth the size of lower 48 states, and as Ken Schultz [4] notes in his chapter on Alaska [5] "Alaska is a bounty of more than 3,000 rivers, more than 3 million lakes ...

  3. Nancy Lake State Recreation Area - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Lake_State...

    The Nancy Lake State Recreation Area was established by the Alaska State Legislature on July 6, 1966, to be set aside specifically for use as recreation. The day prior, the nearby Matanuska-Susitna Borough designated the area as a special land-use district in order to apply local zoning laws which would reinforce the recreational use of the land, and allow the borough to apply penalties for ...

  4. Wildlife of Alaska - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildlife_of_Alaska

    The Alaskan subspecies of moose (Alces alces gigas) is the largest in the world; adult males weigh 1,200 to 1,600 pounds (542–725 kg), and adult females weigh 800 to 1,300 pounds (364–591 kg) [17] Alaska's substantial moose population is controlled by predators such as bears and wolves, which prey mainly on vulnerable calves, as well as by ...

  5. Hunting license - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_license

    Finnish bowhunting license. A hunting license or hunting permit is a regulatory or legal mechanism to control hunting, both commercial and recreational. A license specifically made for recreational hunting is sometimes called a game license. Hunting may be regulated informally by unwritten law, self-restraint, a moral code, or by governmental ...

  6. List of Canada–United States border crossings - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Canada–United...

    State Notes Structure or notable feature Coordinates Little Gold Creek: Hwy 9 (Top of the World Highway) Yukon: Poker Creek: PKC: AK-5 (Top of the World Highway) Alaska Canada: Friday before Victoria Day to Sept 15 (9:00–19:00 YT); U.S.: Memorial Day to Labor Day (8:00–18:00 AKT); depending on weather & road conditions.

  7. Larose Forest - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larose_Forest

    The number of moose dropped considerably in the 1990s and 2000s. Whereas in 1994 the density of moose in Larose Forest was 7.0 moose per 10 km 2 , it had reduced to 2.2 per 10 km 2 by 2007. In optimal conditions, Larose Forest should be able to sustain more than four times as many moose.

  8. Western moose - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Moose

    The Western moose [2] (Alces alces andersoni) is a subspecies of moose that inhabits boreal forests and mixed deciduous forests in the Canadian Arctic, western Canadian provinces and a few western sections of the northern United States. It is the second largest North American subspecies of moose, second to the Alaskan moose.

  9. Hunting in the United States - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hunting_in_the_United_States

    Hunting migratory waterfowl requires a duck stamp from the Fish and Wildlife Service in addition to the appropriate state hunting license. Harvest of animals other than big game is typically restricted by a bag limit and a possession limit. A bag limit is the maximum number of a specific animal species that an individual can harvest in a single ...