Hunting Alaska in the old days

Back In The Day

Back In The Day

There have been many changes in the hunting world over the past 50 years or so, especially in Alaska. Some good and some not so good. I arrived in Anchorage in February 1965 and bought my first resident hunting license in February 1966. It cost $7. I could harvest 1 polar bear, 1 brown bear, 3 black bears, 1 Dall sheep, 2 mountain goats, 1 moose, 3 caribou and 5 black tailed deer each year. No drawings and no tags just general open hunting seasons. The hunting regulations booklet was about 4 x 5 inches in size with about 50 pages. In 1982 it expanded to a 5 ¼ x 8 ¼ booklet with 80 pages. Today it is an 8 x 10 booklet with 144 pages. That’s a lot of regulations.