Geez, you are out in the sticks!
I really love that part of Alaska...worked out of Dawson City a couple of seasons and had a helicopter/fixed wing supported gold exploration project I managed SW of Dawson about three miles on the Yukon Territory side of the Alaskan border.
Loved it up there except on the Canadian side it was almost impossible to have a firearm. We did have a shotgun in camp, and had to kill a black bear who would not stay out of camp...this with electric perimeter fence around camp. We chased it off with the chopper but it kept coming back.
You live in an amazing place, (but you can have Fairbanks!). I worked one season at the Fort Knox gold mine out of Fairbanks and was not impressed with the city but did like the brewery at Fox.
Cheers
What is humorous is the people on the border are often related to back & forth. Everybody trades guns, long time common practice. Canadians have as many guns as Alaskans do; almost like there isn’t a border between locals, which is how it should be. I really think the border is mainly about money & control. When you call this place home, you get a different perspective. We are 110 miles downriver from Dawson; couldn’t call anywhere’s else home; more freedom here than I’ve experienced in my life.