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Unit research · Alaska Unit 26A

Unit 26A — Alaska

73% public across 35,974,717 ac. Real backcountry here — 97% of the public land sits more than a mile from any road. Watch the checkerboard: 2,399,134 ac of public land has no public route in.

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0–7,260 ft

elevation range

73%

public land

97%

of public >1 mi from a road

2,399,134 ac

landlocked public

0.02

road miles per mi²

995 mi

maintained trails

Computed from primary government data by the open pipeline. See the code →

Tags & season

Tags: check Alaska Department of Fish and Game.

No draw hunts are published for this unit. Tag type, quotas and season dates are in Alaska Department of Fish and Game's regulations.

Plus: Alaska hunting licence$45.00 resident · $160.00 nonresident

Season dates: see Alaska Department of Fish and Game's regulations

ADF&G — 2026-2027 Alaska Hunting Regulations (licences, locking tags, guide requirement)

Fees and draw dates from Alaska Department of Fish and Game, 2026, verified 2026-08-16. Tag type from the agency's published draw statistics: a unit that appears in none of them has no limited-entry hunt we know of. Source: ADF&G — 2026-2027 Alaska Hunting Regulations (licences, locking tags, guide requirement) · ADF&G — Drawing hunt information.

Land & access

BLM 60%SDNR 7%NPS 6%□ Private 27%
Unit area35,974,717 ac
Public land26,125,293 ac (73%)
Landlocked public2,399,134 ac (9.2%)
Motorized routes (MVUM + roads)886 mi
Maintained trails995 mi

Backcountry

Public land >1 mi from a road25,214,712 ac (97% of public)
Road density0.02 mi/mi²
Managed byBLM 21468k ac · SDNR 2445k ac · NPS 2186k ac
Elevation0–7,260 ft
Median elevation390 ft
Median slope

Where the ground sits

0 ft7,260 ft

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Slope mix

Which way the slopes face

N 29%
E 23%
S 24%
W 24%

Share of ground steeper than 5° — flat ground has no facing

North slopes hold shade, cover and snow; south slopes open first.

USGS 3DEP 1 arc-second (30 m), slope at native resolution in a local metric projection, sampled on a 800 m grid. See the code →

Unit intelligence report

140,858 ac of this unit has burned — 0% of the unit. The full report assembles it into one printable document and keeps it current as the facts change.

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Harvest — agency survey estimates

Moose · 2024 · all hunts

14.3% success

1 taken by 7 hunters

Res 17% · NR 0% success

Moose hunter success · 2005–2024 · 79% → 14%

caribou · 2024 · all hunts

64.2% success

131 taken by 204 hunters

Res 51% · NR 67% success

caribou hunter success · 2005–2024 · 84% → 64%

dall sheep · 2024 · all hunts

25% success

1 taken by 4 hunters

Res 25% success

dall sheep hunter success · 2005–2024 · 25% → 25%

muskox · 2024 · all hunts

50% success

1 taken by 2 hunters

Res 50% success

muskox hunter success · 2005–2024 · 100% → 50%

Registered harvest by GAME MANAGEMENT SUBUNIT, twenty seasons (2005-2024), across SEVEN species — moose, caribou, Dall sheep, mountain goat, bison, muskox and elk. That is the widest species set of any state here, and the only place caribou, muskox and Dall sheep appear at all. ⚠️ RESIDENCY SPLITS BOTH THE NUMERATOR AND THE DENOMINATOR. ADF&G reports successful AND unsuccessful hunters separately for residents and nonresidents, so Alaska carries a true per-residency success rate rather than a harvest split against a shared hunter count. Most states publish neither half. ⚠️ ALASKA'S SHEEP ARE DALL SHEEP (Ovis dalli), not the bighorn every other state in this set hunts. ADF&G's own form says only "Sheep"; the species is named accurately here so a cross-state view cannot merge two different animals. ⚠️ A BARE UNIT NUMBER IS THE "SUBUNIT NOT REPORTED" BUCKET. Alongside 13A-13E the report carries a row for plain "13", and it is NOT their subtotal — in 2024 it holds 33 hunters and one moose against the subunits' 3,793 and 697. It is where hunters who named the unit but not the subunit land. Those rows are kept because they are real published harvest, but they match no polygon and appear on no unit page. ⚠️ THE REPORT'S UNIT IDS ARE ZERO-PADDED ("01A", "02Z") while ADF&G's own map layer uses "1A" and "2". The trailing Z is an internal marker meaning "no subunits" and appears in no publication. Normalised at ingest; left alone, every row would fail to find its polygon silently. Fetched through the department's own form: an ASP.NET antiforgery token that ROTATES on every response, behind an F5 firewall that rejects invented URLs. See scripts/ak-harvest-to-csv.py. Deer and bear are not in this tool and are not carried. Source: ADF&G — General Harvest Reports, report 330 'Hunter AK Residency and Success by Unit'.

How these numbers are made

public_land_pct = public_area / unit_area
landlocked = public ∖ reachable(roads, corners)
remote = public ∖ buffer(roads, 1 mi)

Computed, not curated: no paid research team, no opinions dressed as data. If a number looks wrong, file an issue — the fix ships for everyone.

Nearby units

Unit 2381% public · 100% remoteUnit 26B91% public · 93% remoteUnit 24B91% public · 99% remoteUnit 24A88% public · 88% remoteUnit 25A93% public · 98% remoteUnit 24C79% public · 97% remote

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