I would get ahold the state trooper out of cold foot and ask him these questions as well.. I been on the dalton hwy several times and I can tell you I seen more wolves than moose. Then again I was not hunting several miles off the road either.. Also some of those "rivers" up there aren't really rivers more like creeks and during that time can be running extremely low you might be dragging the raft more than riding in it. I have hunted the lupine river and it's not much of a river when I last hunted it I could walk across it. Now the sag river which is further North of where you are hunting now that's a river.