131 moose harvested during 2024 hunt

Hunters harvested 131 moose this season, which according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game was the third highest harvest on record for this area.

According to Fish and Game, 45 of the moose were checked in at the Petersburg ADF&G office, 50 were reported to the Wrangell representative and 22 were reported to the Kake representative. The rest were checked in at other ADF&G offices throughout the region.

Among the 131 total moose taken this year, 120 were legal harvests and the remaining 11 moose were harvested illegally.

This final tally for the RM038 hunt aligns with managers' expectat...