Alaska · UplandSharp-tailed grouse

Sharp-tailed grouse in Alaska is confined entirely to the Interior's river valleys and their foothills, with no occurrence in coastal or Southeast Alaska. The species is essentially at the far northwestern edge of a range that otherwise stretches south to the prairie border most people associate with sharptails. ADF&G's own species profile names the core range as the Yukon River Valley from the Canadian border to Holy Cross, plus the valleys of the Upper Koyukuk, Upper Kuskokwim, Tanana, and Upper Copper rivers. Within that range, ADF&G's own spring lek-count survey and wing-donation program single out the Tanana Valley around Tok and Delta Junction as the dominant harvest and monitoring center.