Alaska Moose — Unit 23
Alaska Unit 23 covers 30,143,557 acres and lies 34 miles north-east of Noorvik and 65 miles east of Kotzebue. In 2025, 362 people hunted moose here and took 94 — 26% of them killed something.
Your chance of drawing here
Alaska Department of Fish and Game has not offered a moose license in Unit 23 in any draw we hold. It has a page because the agency still publishes harvest for it — the Alaska moose 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 | 362 | 94 | 26% | 10.8 |
| 2024 | 354 | 105 | 30% | 5.3 |
| 2023 | 320 | 77 | 24% | 6.9 |
| 2022 | 350 | 109 | 31% | 5.3 |
| 2021 | 420 | 96 | 23% | 6.3 |
Boundary: Alaska Game Management Unit and Subunit boundaries (wc_public/GMUSubunits)