Caribou Meat

Rough-Processing Your Meat

We have VERY limited space to store meat however, once you harvest an animal and have it field processed and back to your pick-up location, you should send us an inReach message. We may may be able to pick up your animal prior to your fly-out date. However, you should plan for meat to stay in the field with you for the entire time.

When you get back into town, you are responsible for butchering the meat yourself.

Here’s a good video on butchering wild game by MeatEater:

It gives the “how to” on breaking down a whole whitetail deer (which is the same as a caribou or a moose). Steve takes you through the process of transforming a whole deer into steaks, roasts, shanks and doesn’t skip the extras that are often discarded.

Transfer or Donation of Game Meat

It is illegal to buy, sell or barter game meat. Unprocessed meat and other game parts may be transferred to others permanently (given as a gift) or may be transferred temporarily for the purpose of transport. Any meat you plan to give away must be in the same or better condition as meat you would keep for yourself.

It is your responsibility to make sure that game has been legally taken before you accept or transport it. If you accept game or parts of game from someone else, either permanently as a gift or temporarily in order to transport that game, it becomes your responsibility to salvage all edible meat for human consumption.