Wildlife Management Planning

The Division of Wildlife Conservation conducts planning on two levels. In its strategic planning, the division looks at broad issues it is likely to face in the future and develops practical and responsible organizational and policy approaches for dealing with them. In conservation and management planning, species- or area-specific wildlife and habitat management issues are addressed, often with collaborative public and interagency processes.

The division has increased its efforts to involve the public in wildlife management decision-making in response to growing public interest and the increasing social complexity of wildlife management issues. Public involvement can range from seeking public input on division proposals, to collaborative processes with high levels of public participation. The more complex or controversial the wildlife issues, the greater the need for public participation. Decisions in which all stakeholders have a voice are more socially and politically durable than are those made unilaterally by the department.

Statewide

Active Planning Projects

• Delta Bison Management Plan Update
  • Delta Bison Management Plan 2000–2005 (PDF file 73 K)
  • September 2009 Delta Bison News (PDF file 705 K)
  • ADF&G Delta Bison Crop Damage Assessment Report 2009 (PDF file 549 K)
• Wildlife & Fish Conservation Strategy
• Wood Bison Restoration

Final Management Plan

• Strategic Planning

Individual Species & Area Plans

Active Planning Projects

• Wolverine Creek Area Planning Project
• Game Management Unit 23

Intensive Management for Moose in GMU 20A

• Public Announcement (PDF file 120 K)
• Draft Planning Process Proposal (PDF file 481 K)
• Nomination Form (PDF file 14 K)

Final Management Plans

• Yukon-Innoko Moose Management Plan (PDF file 2.18 MB)
• 2008 McNeil River Management Plan (PDF file 332 K)
  • 2008 McNeil River Management Plan Appendix A (PDF file 1,024 K)
  • 2008 McNeil River Management Plan Appendix B (PDF file 33 K)
• 1996 McNeil River Management Plan (PDF file 458 K)
• Central Kuskokwim Moose Management Plan (PDF file 2.8 MB)
• Western Arctic Caribou Herd Management Planning
• Draft Southeast Alaska Elk Management Plan
• Delta Bison Management Plan (PDF file 73K)
• Southeast Alaska Unit 4 Brown Bear Management Strategy
• Yukon Flats Cooperative Moose Management Plan (PDF file 2.4MB)
• Koyukuk River Moose Management Plan
• Living with Wildlife in Anchorage: A Cooperative Planning Effort
• Kenai Peninsula Brown Bear Committee
  • Kenai Peninsula Brown Bear Conservation Strategy
  • Stakeholder Members
• Kodiak Archipelago Bear Management Plan
  • Plan Summary
  • Planning Process
  • CAC Members
• Fortymile Caribou Herd Harvest Plan 2006–2012 (PDF file 320 K)
• Fortymile Caribou Herd Harvest Plan 2001–2006 (PDF file 98 K)

Habitat Planning

• Fire Ecology in Alaska
• Western Tanana Flats Prescribed Burn Plan Part 1 (PDF file 540K)
• Western Tanana Flats Prescribed Burn Plan Part 2 (PDF file 3.95MB)
• Map of Prescribed Burn in Tanana Flats

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