Alaska Caribou — Unit 9D
Alaska Unit 9D covers 6,127,299 acres and lies 36 miles east of King Cove. In 2025, 168 people hunted caribou here and took 118 — 70% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a caribou license in Unit 9D 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
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 | 168 | 118 | 70% | 4.1 |
| 2024 | 124 | 81 | 65% | 3.3 |
| 2023 | 108 | 85 | 79% | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 92 | 57 | 62% | 3.5 |
| 2021 | 106 | 76 | 72% | 3.8 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)