The Effects of Regional Population Growth on Hunting for Selected Big Game Species in Southcentral Alaska 1976-2000

• Main Authors: Alves, William, Lane, Tom, Scott, Michael, Childers, Robert
• Format: Report
• Language: English
• Published: Institute of Social and Economic Research 1978
• Subjects: Population Growth; Fish and Game; Alaska; Arctic; Siver; Institute of Arctic Biology; Moose
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/11122/13772

This report represents an initial attempt to incorporate available hunting and fishing harvest data gathered by the Alaska Department of Fish and Game into a comprehensive framework employing econometric modeling to forecast future hunting pressure on the state's game resources. This project was fraught with difficulties at every turn, not the least of which was retrieving and formatting the hunting data in a form which could be employed for our modeling experiments. Consequently, the project could not have taken place at all without the ready cooperation of the Alaska Department of Fish and Game, who generously made staff time available to us, and Mr. Ed Murphy of the University of Alaska Institute of Arctic Biology, who supplied and ran the programs which made SPSS access to the hunting data possible. The population projections were made by Tom Lane, with the aid of Mike Scott, while the hunting data manipulation, species habitat, and the hunting effort programming and projections were handled by Bob Childers and Bill Alves. Typing was done by Darla Siver and Marge Matlock. We believe this study to be a useful first attempt to forecast hunting demand in Alaska for long-range planning purposes. As funding becomes available, the Institute plans future research in this critical quality-of-life aspect of a rapidly growing state. The State of Alaska Foreword Table of Contents Table of Tables Table of Figures INTRODUCTION DATA SOURCES AND LIMITATIONS A. B. c. D. Introduction. Hunting Data. - Missing Data - Unreported Hunts and Kills - Permit Hunts - Geographic Compatibility Resource Data - Limitations Human Population Data METHODS: DATA MANIPULATION A. B. C. D. E. Introduction Data Tapes - Origins . - Unknown Origins - Destinations Allowable Harvest Travel Costs . Resident Population Projections METHODS: MODELING HUNTING PRESSURE A. B. A Description of the Models Used - The Model for Deer, Sheep, and Goat Hunting - The Model for Moose Hunting Directions for More Sophisticated Modeling - The Concept of ...