The biggest wolf in most packs almost always are the alpha males, biologists said. “If you catch an alpha male out of a pack that weighs 120, that’s representative of a big, fully grown adult,” said biologist Mark McNay, who spent half of the 27 years he was at the Alaska Department of Fish and Game studying wolves before retiring in 2007.

The wolf occurs throughout mainland Alaska, on Unimak Island in the Aleutians, and on all of the major islands in Southeast except Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof. This range includes about 85 percent of Alaska's 586,000 square-mile area.

The wolf (Canis lupus) occurs throughout mainland Alaska, on Unimak Island in the Aleutians, and on all of the major islands in Southeast except Admiralty, Baranof, and Chichagof.

wolf population dynamics. This evaluation is comprised of six sections and it is based on data that were collected by biologists and cooperators over the past 15 years. The six sections follow: (1) the wolf population, (2) the moose population, ( 3) the …

Species: Caribou, Wolf Species Categories: Big Game, Furbearers, Mammals, Ungulates Title: Ecology of wolves in relation to a migratory caribou herd in Northwest Alaska

this day. In 1946, a member of the Kaagwaantaan (wolf) Clan reported that he was the caretaker of 2 wolf heads which originally came from an ancient village near the mouth of Excursion Inlet and which had been passed down to him from his forefathers (Goldschmidt and Haas 1998:138).

Alaska Department of Fish and Game P.O. Box 115526 1255 W. 8th Street Juneau, AK 99811-5526 Office Locations

Alaska Department of Fish and Game P.O. Box 115526 1255 W. 8th Street Juneau, AK 99811-5526 Office Locations

Gene Conservation Laboratory: SNP Workshop 2005. Sampling Crab Hemolymph for Genetic Analysis — larger file "full" version

Status, Trends, and Threats. The Bristol Bay red king crab stock has shown a trend of increasing abundance since the late 1990s. Fishing effort in this fishery has remained high with an average number of permits at 258 during 2000–2004.