Caribou from the western Arctic Herd scattered across the tundra. (Alaska Department of Fish and Game photo by Geoff Carroll) This fall, moose and caribou hunting on federal lands in Northwest Alaska will be open to all licensed hunters. Regional hunters had requested the Federal Subsistence Board limit hunts to only local federally qualified hunters, as opposed to the Dunleavy administration, which wanted to keep the hunts open to all. Kotzebue hunter Thomas Baker chairs a regional advisory council which is on the ground hearing from communities that depend on subsistence hunting, fishing and gathering. He says there’ve been complaints of state licensed hunters arriving from all over, and disrupting moose and caribou migrations in Northwest Alaska.