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AITRC Community Harvest System
Permits will be available at the AITRC Office beginning Friday, July 1, 2024.
In 2016, the Department of Interior and AITRC membership entered into a Memorandum of Agreement that allows AITRC to cooperatively manage wildlife on Federal lands within the Ahtna Traditional Use Territory. Since 2017, AITRC has worked with the Alaska Federal Subsistence Management program to develop a community harvest system for moose in Unit 11 and for moose and caribou in Units 12 and 13. This system allows AITRC to manage the community harvest system by registering federally qualified rural residents of the 8 Ahtna tribal communities, where individual federal bag limits can be pooled for the benefit of participants.
What does this mean?
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Federally qualified residents of Cantwell, Mentasta, Chistochina, Gakona, Gulkana, Copper Center, and Chitina census-designated places (CDPs) are eligible to participate in the Community Harvest System but are not required to. (To see if you are living in one of the resident zones - please see the links to the right).
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Being a resident of one of these CDPs doesn’t mean that you can hunt anywhere in Units 11, 12, and 13, as you must still meet existing customary and traditional use determination eligibility. Contact AITRC for additional information;
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You do not have to go to the BLM and the NPS for your federal permit, but to one location at AITRC;
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Seasons and bag limits will be the same as other federally managed hunts in those units.
AITRC-administered Federal Subsistence Community Harvest System (CHS) – Any Bull Moose (FM1301)
Open only to federally qualified residents of the 8 Ahtna tribal communities: Cantwell, Chistochina, Chitina, Copper Center, Gakona, Gulkana, Mentasta Lake, and Tazlina within the respective US Census Designation Places surrounding each of these communities, as seen in the most current Community Harvest System Regulations Booklet.
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The hunt applies only to federal public lands of Unit 11 and portions of Units 12 & 13. In some areas (e.g., Wrangell–Saint Elias National Park), eligible hunters must also meet specific customary and traditional criteria (C&T) to participate in the AITRC-administered hunt on certain federal public lands (e.g., federal C&T determinations, resident zone community requirements; see current AITRC Federal Subsistence Community Harvest System Regulations Booklet).
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Participants must carry:
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State of Alaska hunting license
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AITRC CHS Registration Card & Harvest Report
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Bag limits:
The CHS bag limit is the combined total of the individual bag limits of those who register as participants in the federal CHS. Participants may give their AITRC-administered harvest report to another federal CHS participant so that they might be able to take two moose instead of just the one they would otherwise be limited to take under an individual federal subsistence moose permit issued by BLM or NPS.
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Reporting requirements:
Harvest reports are due back to AITRC within 5 days of take (or within 15 days of the end of the season if unsuccessful).
Unit 12 Clarification
Recently, questions have been raised about where in Unit 12 CHS participants may hunt. The cross-hatched areas on the map above identify those federal lands open to the Federal Subsistence CHS moose hunting.
ADF&G-administered State Community Subsistence Moose Hunt (CM300)
Any Alaska resident, regardless of where one lives, may participate in the state community subsistence hunt for moose in Units 11 & 13. Unless one applied in advance for an any bull locking tag, state community hunt participants must follow the SF504br antler restrictions.
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The annual quota of any bull moose allowed to be taken in the state community subsistence hunt is limited to 100. Before you head out, please call the ADF&G Community Subsistence Moose Harvest Hunt Hotline at (907) 822-6789 for the most up-to-date information on remaining any bull quotas in Unit 13 and Unit 11.
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If the CM300 any bull moose harvest quota has been met, CM300 permit holders may continue to hunt moose under the SF504br bag limits. SF504br bag limits means either:
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A spike or forked antlered moose
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A moose with antler spread of at least 50 inches
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A moose with 4 or more brow tines on at least one side
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Remember: Harvests must be reported to ADF&G within 24 hours to ensure quotas are not exceeded.