Alaska Caribou — Unit 12

Alaska Unit 12 covers 6,392,858 acres and lies 145 miles south-east of Delta Junction. In 2025, 49 people hunted caribou here and took 2 — 4% of them killed something.

Hunter success (2025):4% Size:6,392,858 acres

Your chance of drawing here

Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 12 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska caribou hunts that are on offer are drawn elsewhere.

The country

Ketchikan Kake Cordova Delta Junction Kodiak
Unit 12 within Alaska
11 13 13A 13B 13C 13D 13E 14 14A 14B 14C 16A 20 20A 20B 20D 20E 6B 7 Delta Junction Valdez Cordova North Pole Palmer
Unit 12 and its neighbours
Zoomable USGS topo, aerial imagery and shaded relief, with the neighboring areas drawn on.

Boundaries are drawn for orientation only — the written boundary description in the regulations governs.

How the hunting has gone

What Alaska Department of Fish and Game publishes for this area after each season — harvest statistics for everyone who hunted it, not draw odds and not a forecast. Alaska's figures come from mandatory harvest reports and sealing certificates rather than a hunter survey, so they are counts of animals reported, not estimates.

Season Hunters Harvest Success Days per animal
2025 49 2 4% 10.0
2024 49 5 10% 5.0
2023 38 0% 0.0
2022 74 6 8% 8.7
2021 67 15 22% 6.6

Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)

Harvest: 2025 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2024 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

Harvest: 2023 Caribou General Harvest Reports -- Sex Composition of Harvest by Subunit (Id=130) and Summary of Hunter Effort vs. Success by Subunit (Id=510)

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