Federal Subsistence Board News

Federal Subsistence Board Extends Moose Season in the FM1203 hunt area of Unit 12 to October 10, 2022

10/03/2022

For Immediate Release:

October 3, 2022

The Federal Subsistence Board (Board) approved WSA22-03 with modification to extend the moose hunt season in the FM1203 hunt area of Unit 12 (that portion within the Tetlin National Wildlife Refuge and those lands within the Wrangell-St. Elias National Preserve north and east of a line formed by the Pickerel Lake Winter Trail from the Canadian border to Pickerel Lake) to October 10, 2022.

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Bristol Bay Subsistence Regional Advisory Council to hold working group meeting on deferred Wildlife Proposal WP22-40 (Units 9, 17; wolf, wolverine)

09/13/2022

For Immediate Release:

September 13, 2022

Public is welcome and encouraged to participate via teleconference

The Bristol Bay Regional Advisory Council (Council) will hold a working group meeting via teleconference on September 29, 2022, beginning at 10 a.m. to discuss deferred Wildlife Proposal WP22-40.  This proposal requests allowing the use of a snowmachine to position wolves and wolverines for harvest on Federal public lands in Units 9B, 9C, 17B, and 17C.  The Federal Subsistence Board (Board) deferred Proposal WP22-40 during its April 2022 meeting at the request of the Council, so that the Council can gather more information and input from the public.  The Board will deliberate Proposal WP22-40 at its January 2023 regulatory meeting. 

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