Shuyak & Nanwalek Wilderness Reserve ( Kodiak Archipelago & Kenai Peninsula )

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I am extremely passionate about Alaska while I have never visited it, it is a personal dream of mine to hunt there.
I do know we have Yukon Valley already but it doesn't represent Alaska in the best way to be honest I feel like it is more of a Yukon Territory map rather than Alaska this is a area that isn't particularly talked about alot so I felt that it'd be a good idea to make a map Idea on this part of Alaska.

I took heavy inspiration from this post https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1118713888410706042
Thank you for the inspiration and ideas I definitely liked your idea. fuzion5729

Species List:

Class 1 Species:

Duck Species:

● Long-Tailed Duck
● King Eider
● Pacific Eider
● Common Scoter
● Northern Pintail
● American Wigeon
● Aleutian Teal
● Barrow's Goldeneye

Goose Species:

● Emperor Goose
● Greater White Fronted Goose
● Black Brant Goose

Grouse Species:

○ Rock Ptarmigan
○ Willow Ptarmigan
● White Tailed Ptarmigan
● Spruce Grouse

Rabbit & Hare Species:

● Snowshoe Hare

Class 2 Species:

○ Red Fox
● American Beaver

Class 3 Species:

● Wolverine
● Canadian Lynx
○ Coyote

Class 4 Species:

● Sitka Blacktail Deer ( Potential Great One )
● Dall Sheep
○ Mountain Goat ( Model Rework )

Class 5 Species:???

Class 6 Species:???

Class 7 Species:

○ Black Bear
○ Grizzly Bear ( Model Rework )

Class 8 Species:

● Kodiak Bear
○ Roosevelt Elk ( Potential GO ) ( Model Rework )
○● Alaska-Yukon Moose

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I like it

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Such a good map maybe add caribou and wolf

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I was unable to find any pics of ranges with Caribou on it showing them inhabiting Kenai Peninsula wolves I'm not too sure about

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Kodiak island is in my top two most wanted maps

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What is the other?

I was thinking there could be a Northern Alaska map but people would want Nunavut or NWT more

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Personally I want canada arctic the most , I’m the reason people including me want a Canadian arctic over Alaskan is that you can’t hunt polar bears in Alaska unless your native so they wouldn’t be in the game but you can in Canada.

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I wish North America wasn't how do I put it hated essentially I know people are sick of North America and just want a Arctic map and a potential BC map but there's many other very cool locations with cool species that could be in the game but people don't really want them

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I feel like the release of New England really made people turn away from NA because it might of made some people think that NA must have nothing else to offer (it 100% does) because of all the recycled species

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I think people actually need to do some research on locations instead of simply disliking an idea just because its in the US and even when there are new species people still complain because they're just "birds"

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Agreed I think NA has 100% the potential for 3 maybe even 4 great maps for the future for example as kodiak island,BC,Canada arctic and maybe even Arkansas as it is the duck hunting capital of the world.

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I'm thinking

Kodiak Alaska
Nunavut and NWT
BC
Louisiana
Florida
Yucatan Mexico

And maybe even some more but they'd likely not be all that different in terms of new species

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All would be W maps in my opinion although if we got Florida I’m not sure if there would be a need for Louisiana considering we have Mississippi aswell

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I highly that "Arkansas" I'd the duck capital I would say it's coastal Alaska or Louisiana

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No Mississippi just needs a rework
https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1199632242620768287

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When i search up duck capital of the world it says stuttgard Arkansas

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Who says that

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Google

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Wikipedia says that it calls itself that but coastal Alaska, Louisiana mudbug fields and swamps also Argentina all make for better and more interesting duck Hunting

Gueydan Louisiana and st.paul Alaska are commonly known as the duck hunting Capitals of the world

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So is stuttgard Arkansas though

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Na dude a city with a stolen name in the worst state with a horrible name id not the duck capital although it propably has good duck hunting it is no where near a dream destination like Argentina, Alaska or Louisiana

A Arkansas duck hunting map would be fire tho and having Gators and elk on one map would be very cool

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It’s also possible that there is not a definitive duck capital of the world and it’s just opinion based.

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Like in south Africa where they'res multiple capitald

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I also think if I would want to see another waterfowl kinda map kodiak island would be perfect because it gives the best of both worlds for big game and small game

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Definetly

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Total scenery change from Yukon so not sure why people wouldn’t like it also would have loads of new species

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Absolutely

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Amazing move grizzlies to 8 because in the upcoming update there class 8

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Turns out caribou are on katmai peninsula

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I think a Badlands map would be great, too. I proposed that just the other day as well: https://discord.com/channels/393040947006406657/1215312323028328558

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