Pretty much concur with everyone here.
In the old days, you could indeed “homestead” a section, which I believe was 144 acres. But “homesteading” meant you had to put up a permanent dwelling (no tarp lean-tos) and actually live on the properlty for six to nine months of the year. You also had to “develop” either a quarter or a half, and “developing” meant putting up other buildings (subdividing) or clearing it for farming or raising livestock.
All the “local” or easily accessible homesteads pretty much statewide were long since snatched up by the late sixties, though increasingly remote lots were still available, as I recall, into the eighties.
Today, as already noted, if you want square miles of land, you’ll need cubic yards of money.
And as Lemur mentioned, just owning the land doesn’t exempt you from Fish & Wildlife regulations. Depending on where your estate ends up, you’ll still need permits or tags for moose or caribou, you’ll still be limited to X number of salmon from the streams (presuming you’re close enough to the coast) and bear will only be legal if it’s “in defense of life and property”.
There’s timber regulations that cover most of the state, including Native and private land, meaning there’s every chance you couldn’t log it anyway, even if it was close enough to run a road out tyo deliver the wood.
However, if you have a puddle-jumper and a pilot’s license (as something like one in twenty Alaskans do) if you can buy a mere dozen acres near a small lake somewhere remote but within a Supercub’s fuel limits of Anchorage, Fairbanks, or the Peninsula, you can plunk down a small cabin site. Who cares if you actually own it or not, you could easily be the only human and/or habitation in a sixty or seventy mile radius.
I’d still like to hear why FatDave wants that much land, that remote… Planning on studying wide-area beetle-kill progression? 