Thanks.
Our AK place is on a ridge, so mostly aspen forest and much warmer.
The Fairbanks daylength goes from a low of 3 hrs 42 minutes on the Winter Solstice to 10 hours the end of February.
That said, now that we are retired, we winter (renting) in MT, summer back home in AK.
That extends our hunting season into mid January, plus retriever training in the spring starts earlier.