ADF&G Videos

This is two video's in one! The first video will provide you with information you need to care for your harvested big game animal in the Alaskan climate. The second video will show you how to determine a legal bull in hunts that have antler restrictions. These videos are required for some hunts!

Field Care of Big Game is required viewing for unguided nonresident moose and caribou hunters in Game Management Unit 19B.
Is This Moose Legal is required viewing for unguided nonresident moose hunters in Unit 17B and 19B.
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Every trapper wants to get the most value for their furs. This video will help you, whether you're just starting out or are a trapline veteran.

With a combined 75 years of Alaskan trapping and fur handling experience, Joe Mattie and Percy Duyck lead you step-by-step in the professional skinning, fleshing and boarding of marten, mink, large furbearers and beaver pelts.

Even if you've trapped for years, you may be interested in the Yupik Eskimo style of mouth skinning for marten and mink and an efficient, clean method for beaver skinning. Details of preparing large furbearers for the lucrative taxidermy market are also covered.
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Join Alaskan biologists as they journey into the heart of Alaska to learn about the animals that inhabit the Last Frontier. An Inside Glimpse features six shows on wildlife research projects carried out by Fish & Game biologists. You may view these six shows online using RealPlayer.

• Caribou Calves: Struggle for Survival
• The Moose Research Center: Alaska's Wild Laboratory
• Buffalo in Alaska: Home on the Range
• Bear Essentials
• Marten: Dwellers of the Ancient Forest
• Into the Bear's Lair

Join former Governor Jay Hammond in exploring the early history of Alaska with rich illustrations from University of Alaska and museum archives. Dramatic paintings, photographs and films bring you in touch with early exploration and development of the Alaskan fur trade in the 1740s through its importance during the Great Depression to Alaska's struggle for Statehood in 1959.

Compelling interviews with Alaska Native elders, wildlife biologists, local fur buyers, skin sewers and trappers convey the complex values held by individual Alaskans regarding Alaska's fur heritage and its importance today.

Trapping is rooted in the lives and traditional cultures of Alaska's people. Trapping provides northern people with food, clothing and income. Using family traplines handed down across generations, village trappers support traditional ways of life that are close to the land. Alaska Village Trappers describes the social, cultural, and economic significance of trapping through visits with village trappers in three areas of Alaska:

• Celebrating Mink
• Alaska's Trapping Interior
• Spring Muskrat Camp

Alaska's Steller sea lions are in trouble. Once numbering over 200,000 animals, the population has plummeted in recent years, in some areas by as much as 80 percent. Why are Steller sea lions disappearing, and what can be done to stop the population crash? This program will take you on a field trip to sea lion rookeries in remote parts of the Gulf of Alaska and Aleutian Islands. There you will be treated to a remarkable look at how sea lions live in Alaska's North Pacific, one of the world's most breathtaking natural environments. You will also learn what scientists are doing in their race against time to solve the mystery of the sea lion's decline.

Few animals excite as much debate as this elusive creature. Exterminated from much of their range in the "Lower 48," wolves remain abundant in Alaska. Yet controversy continues over how to manage this majestic predator.

• Join biologists on a backcountry journey to unravel the mysteries of the gray wolf.
• Meet trappers, conservationists and Alaska Natives as they discuss their heartfelt views on wolves.
• Learn how wolves are managed today and how they were managed historically.

Then watch Connecting with Caribou.

• Hang on as students from Northwest Alaska work hand-in-hand with state biologists studying Alaska's largest caribou herd.
• Witness thousands of caribou migrating from the Arctic coastal plain to their southern wintering grounds.
• Learn about the importance of caribou to residents of Alaska's Far North.

• Bow fishing gear & methods
• Spear - open water & through the ice
• Fly fishing & popular patterns
• Spin fishing & the "must-have" lures
• Including how to make boneless fillets

For more info visit the Pike Fishing Instructional Video web page.