Curtis Kautz stands beside his kill after it was hoisted up at the Reliance Float. Kautz won the only elk-hunting permit for Zarembo Island this year and successfully shot the bull on Oct. 5.
Two thousand and ninety to one. Those were the odds of winning the only elk-hunting permit on Zarembo Island this year — the first time in nearly 20 years the state Board of Game has permitted elk hunting on Zarembo after they were urged to do so by the Wrangell Fish and Game Advisory Committee.
Quite literally against all odds, Wrangell resident Curtis Kautz won the lottery. His prize? A 31-day window to try and bag a creature Kautz described as smart, skittish and fast.
"They're hard to sneak up on," he said.
Elk are not native to Southeast. In 1987, the Alaska Department of Fish and Game tr...
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