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Hunting tips • Don’t dispose of gut piles in BLM trash containers. It’s gross and unnecessary. BLM has only one seasonal laborer to make the run up and down the highway emptying trash containers at waysides and putting animal innards in the trash bins makes the bags incredibly heavy and stinky, Jodwalis said. Doing so also has the potential to attract
other animals to the garbage bins, such as foxes and bears. • Clean your kill away from the road. Not only does this make things cleaner and safer for everyone involved, it makes things lighter for the hunter hauling out a caribou. It’s also illegal to leave gut piles next to the road, and hunters can be cited for doing so. • Bring a GPS. Only bow hunting is allowed within five miles of the highway so you need to know where you are if you’re a rifle hunter.
Camping tips • Watch where you camp. Remember, there is no camping allowed in the Toolik Lake Research Natural Area between 278 Mile and 293 Mile. This includes the lakeshore, old airstrip and access road. There is fee camping allowed at Galbraith Lake at 275 Mile. • Keep a clean camp. If hunters do leave their camps to search for caribou, food and trash should be enclosed in their vehicles or in some kind of sturdy contain-
ers to keep other animals out. • If trash bins are full, backhaul your trash. Don’t pile it on the ground outside the trash bins. Take it to Deadhorse or bring it back to town to dispose of. “Even when you have somebody picking up trash every other day, they can get full pretty quickly,” Jodwalis said. • Don’t dump RV wastewater on the ground. There is a free dump station at 60 Mile (5 miles north of the Yukon River).
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Army also will publish the maps on the web at: www.usarak.army.mil/conservation/FWA_DTA_Maps.htm and at www.wainwright.army.mil. All impact areas are off limits because they contain unexploded ordnance. These areas are depicted on Alaska Department of Fish and Game maps as restricted areas. The Army will issue news releases and update websites as more information becomes available on what areas will be open to hunting. Contact the newsroom at 459-7572.
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