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Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve
Hunting Guide Services in Dry Bay
(Glacier Bay National Preserve only)

This page includes information regarding hunting guide concession authorizations in Glacier Bay. For a listing of all companies that provide visitor services in and around the Park, see the Glacier Bay Visitor Services list on the Goods and Services page.

Sport hunting is allowed only in Glacier Bay National Preserve (Dry Bay area). Two hunting guides are authorized to provide guided sport hunting in specific areas of the Preserve. Hunting (and fishing) services are specifically excluded from the provisions of ANILCA section 1307.

The following are copies of the two current hunting guide concession contracts:
Gary Gray Registered Guide and Outfitter Concession Contract
John H. Latham Registered Guide and Outfitter Concession Contract

Hunting Guide Services Prospectus
The National Park Service issued a prospectus February 4, 2005, under which two concession contracts (listed above) were awarded for the operation of guided hunting services within Glacier Bay National Preserve. To view the solicitation # GLBA90X-05, the prospectus for Guided Hunting Services, click here .


Contact Chief of Concessions Management David Nemeth or Concessions Specialist Marilyn Trump for more information.

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Icebergs calve off the face of a tidewater glacier  

Did You Know?
Seawater is highly erosive to glacial ice. Waves and tides work away at an unstable glacier face, causing huge chunks of ice to calve, or break off, into the ocean.

Last Updated: October 02, 2008 at 15:36 EST