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Trapping Regulations You may trap wildlife for subsistence uses only within the seasons and harvest limits in these unit trapping regulations. Trapping wildlife out of season or in excess of harvest limits for subsistence uses is illegal and prohibited. However, you may trap unclassified wildlife (such as all squirrel and marmot species) in all units, without harvest limits, from July 1, 2014 through June 30, 2016. Subsistence Trapping Restrictions When taking wildlife for subsistence purposes, ● Take (or assist in the taking of) furbearers by firearm trappers may not: before 3:00 a.m. on the day following the day on which airborne travel occurred. This does not apply to a ● Disturb or destroy a den (except any muskrat pushup trapper using a firearm to dispatch furbearers caught in or feeding house that may be disturbed in the course of a trap or snare. trapping). ● Use a net or fish trap (except a blackfish or fyke trap). ● Disturb or destroy any beaver house. ● Use a firearm other than a shotgun, muzzle-loaded ● Take beaver by any means other than a steel trap or rifle, rifle or pistol using center-firing cartridges, for the snare, except certain times of the year when firearms taking of a wolf or wolverine, except that: may be used to take beaver in Units 9, 12, 17, 18, 20E, ■ You may use a firearm that shoots rimfire 21E, 22 and 23. See Unit-specific regulations. cartridges to take wolf and wolverine under a ● Under a trapping license, take a free-ranging furbearer trapping license. You may sell the raw fur or tanned with a firearm on NPS lands. pelt, with or without claws attached, from legally ● Take otter with a steel trap having a jaw spread of less harvested furbearers. than 5 ⅞ inches during any closed mink and marten season in the same unit. Special Provisions ● National Park Service (NPS) areas—For subsistence for subsistence taking of wildlife is authorized only for use, national parks and monuments are open only to residents of Alatna, Allakaket, Anaktuvuk Pass, Bettles, NPS qualified subsistence users. Subsistence users Evansville, Stevens Village, and residents living within must be local rural residents of NPS areas. For more the Dalton Highway Corridor Management Area. information, contact the NPS office in Anchorage at ● With a trapping license, you may not take a free- (907) 644-3509. ranging furbearer with a firearm in any NPS area. ● Federal public lands within Glacier Bay National ● In Units 1 - 5, you may not shoot wolf or wolverine Park, Sitka National Historical Park, Klondike from a boat unless you are certified as disabled. Gold Rush National Historical Park, Kenai Fjords ● In Units 1 - 5, coyotes taken incidentally with a trap or National Park, Katmai National Park, and Denali snare during an open Federal trapping season for wolf, National Park as it existed prior to December 2, wolverine, or beaver may be legally retained. 1980, are closed to all trapping, including trapping ● In Units 1 - 5, trappers are prohibited from using a trap for subsistence uses. Trapping for subsistence uses, or snare unless the trap or snare has been individually under these regulations, is allowed in Denali National marked with a permanent metal tag upon which is Preserve and on lands added to Denali National Park stamped or permanently etched the trapper’s name on December 2, 1980. and address, or the trapper’s permanent identification ● The Dalton Highway Corridor Management Area, number, or is set within 50 yards of a sign that lists which consists of those portions of Units 20, 24, 25, the trapper’s name and address, or the trapper’s and 26 extending five miles from each side of the permanent identification number; the trapper must use Dalton Highway from the Yukon River to Prudhoe the trapper’s Alaska driver’s license number or state Bay, is closed to the use of motorized vehicles (except identification card number as the required permanent aircraft and boats), and to licensed highway vehicles, identification number; if a trapper chooses to place snowmobiles, and firearms (except as provided below). a sign at a snaring site rather than tagging individual The use of snowmobiles is authorized only for the snares, the sign must be at least 3 inches by 5 inches in subsistence taking of wildlife by residents living within size, be clearly visible, and have numbers and letters the Dalton Highway Corridor Management Area. The that are at least one-half inch high and one-eighth inch use of firearms within the corridor management area wide in a color that contrasts with the color of the sign. 2014/2016 Federal Subsistence Wildlife Regulations 125 Trapping Unit 1 Unit 8 Unit 15 Southeast Mainland Kodiak-Shelikof Kenai ● A firearm may be used to take ● You may not trap furbearers for Unit 1C, Juneau area, the trapping of beaver with a trapping license subsistence in the Skilak Loop furbearers for subsistence uses is pro- from Nov. 10 - Apr. 30. Wildlife Management Area. hibited on the following public lands: Unit 9 ● Taking a red fox by any means Alaska Peninsula other than a steel trap or snare is ● A strip within one-quarter mile of prohibited. the mainland coast between the ● Unit 9B —You may take beaver ● Unit 15B portion—You may end of Thane Road and the end of with a trapping license from not trap marten in that portion of Glacier Highway at Echo Cove; Apr. 1 - May 31, and in Unit 9 Unit 15B east of the Kenai River, remainder from Apr. 1 - 30. ● That area of the Mendenhall Skilak Lake, Skilak River, and Valley bounded on the south by Unit 10 Skilak Glacier. the Glacier Highway, on the west Aleutian Islands ● Kenai NWR regulations: Trapping by the Mendenhall Loop Road and on the Kenai NWR requires a Montana Creek Road and Spur ● On Otter Island in the Pribilof refuge permit. Trapping of red fox Road to Mendenhall Lake, on the Islands, the taking of any wildlife is prohibited on the Kenai NWR. north by Mendenhall Lake, and on species for subsistence uses is Use of aircraft, off-road vehicles the east by the Mendenhall Loop prohibited. and firearms is subject to special Road and Forest Service Glacier Unit 12 Kenai NWR regulations. Spur Road to the Forest Service Upper Tanana-White River Visitor Center; Unit 17 ● Trapping of coyote or wolf is ● That area within the U.S. Forest Bristol Bay prohibited during Apr. and Oct. Service Mendenhall Glacier with a steel trap or with a snare ● If you have a trapping license, you Recreation Area; using cable smaller than 3/32 - may use a firearm to take beaver ● A strip within one-quarter mile of inch diameter. from Apr. 15 - May 31. the following trails as designated Unit 18 on U.S. Geological Survey maps: Unit 13 Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta Herbert Glacier Trail, Windfall Nelchina-Upper Susitna Lake Trail, Peterson Lake ● BLM restricts the use of off-road ● A firearm may be used to take Trail, Spaulding Meadows Trail vehicles to certain designated trails beaver under a trapping license (including the loop trail), Nugget off the Denali and Richardson from Apr. 1 - June 10. Creek Trail, Outer Point Trail, Dan highways in the Tangle Lakes Unit 20 Moller Trail, Perseverance Trail, Archaeological District. For Fairbanks-Central Tenana Granite Creek Trail, Mt. Roberts information and maps on these Trail, Nelson Water Supply Trail, trails and their restrictions, contact ● Unit 20E—Trapping of coyote Sheep Creek Trail, and Point the BLM Glennallen District or wolf is prohibited during Apr. Bishop Trail. Office, P.O. Box 147, Glennallen, and Oct. with a steel trap, or with AK 99588 (907) 822-3217. a snare using cable smaller than Unit 3 3/32 inch diameter. Petersburg-Wrangell Unit 14 Anchorage Unit 21 ● In the Petersburg vicinity, a strip Middle Yukon one-fourth mile wide on each ● The Fort Richardson and side of the Mitkof Highway Elmendorf Air Force Base ● Unit 21E—A firearm may be used from milepost 0 to Crystal Lake Management Areas, consisting to take beaver with a trapping campground is closed to the taking of the Fort Richardson and license from Nov. 1 - June 10. of wolf and wolverine. Elmendorf military reservations, Unit 22 Unit 6 are closed to the subsistence Seward Peninsula Cordova-Valdez taking of wildlife. ● A firearm may be used to take ● The Anchorage Management ● Units 6B and 6C—Coyote may beaver with a trapping license Area, consisting of all drainages be taken with the aid of artificial during the established seasons. south of Elmendorf and Fort lights. ● Coyote, incidentally taken with Richardson military reservations a trap or snare may be used for and north of (and including) subsistence purposes. Rainbow Creek is closed to subsistence taking of wildlife. 126 2014/2016 Federal Subsistence Wildlife Regulations Trapping Special Provisions (continued) Unit 23 Unit 24 Kotzebue Sound Koyukuk ● A firearm may be used to take ● Arctic fox, incidentally taken with beaver with a trapping license a trap or snare intended for red from Nov. 1 - June 10. fox, may be used for subsistence purposes. CUSTOMARY & TRADITIONAL OPEN USE DETERMINATION HARVEST LIMITS SEASONS BEAVER All rural residents Units 1, 2, 3 except Mitkof Island, and No limit Dec. 1 - May 15 Unit 4 Unit 3 Mitkof Island No limit Dec. 1 - Apr. 15 Unit 5 No limit Nov. 10 - May 15 Unit 6 No limit Dec. 1 - Apr. 30 Units 7 and 15 20 beaver per season Nov. 10 - Mar. 31 Unit 8 30 beaver per season Nov. 10 - Apr. 30 Unit 9D No limit Oct. 10 - Mar. 31 2 beaver per day; only a firearm may be used Apr.
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