Dall sheep season opens in Alaska on Aug. 10 and runs through Sept. 20. According to Alaska hunting regulations, throughout much of the state, only rams with full curl horns (meaning those that fully ...

Dall sheep season generally opens August 10 in Alaska, at which time many sheep hunters will already be in the field. If the National Park Service has its way, however, some of those hunters’ plans ...

A recent news release by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game reported two Dall rams had been “euthanized” (shot and killed) in the Salcha area. Some folks thought this harsh and unnecessary. I ...

As a wildlife field technician, Luke Metherell combines job, hobby and homework on weeklong backpacking trips in the mountains. A biology student at University of Alaska Anchorage (UAA), Metherell ...

More than 25 percent of all wild sheep in North America live in Alaska. Dall sheep are highly valued by countless sportsmen, photographers, nature lovers, subsistence users, and scientists. Weather ...

Earlier this week, the Federal Subsistence Board voted unanimously to close more federal public lands in Alaska—this time for Dall sheep hunters. The decision, called WSA22-02, took many hunters by ...

Dall sheep populations have been shrinking across Alaska for two decades. No one knows that better than sheep hunters -- one reason why the Alaska Board of Game has fielded more than 110 proposals to ...

The hook on a boom arm of an Alaska Department of Transportation truck pulls rockfall mesh away from a rock wall near a Dall sheep that was stuck along the Seward Highway near Beluga Point on July 20, ...

Matt Yernatich had made Alaskan hunting trips before. But in September of 2009, he flew to the South Slope of Alaska’s Brooks Range for a hunt that would top all the others. Yernatich spends most of ...

KENAI, Alaska (AP) — The Alaska Board of Game has reaffirmed that using an airplane to spot Dall sheep while hunting is illegal. The board on Tuesday narrowly shot down a proposal that would have ...

Jack Duger finally shot a dall sheep in Alaska this past August. “Well, I can check that off my bucket list,” said the 70-year-old Plainville resident. Duger, a lifetime hunter, has traveled to Alaska ...