Certainly plenty of public land to hunt, I'm not an AK resident, but have read plenty of regs...

It may depend on the area but one awesome thing I read was that say you have a game tag in your pocket, you can take an animal of equal or lesser value, ie if you have a brown bear tag, which is only like $800 as non-res, so resident fees are certainly cheaper, and IMO any resident tag anywhere is cheap!

So if you have a brown bear tag in your pocket, you see a bull moose, you can take it and tag it with your bear tag! Residents don't need guides.

I've considered the move myself, but probably unlikely for me, would love to visit/hunt there in the near future.