This year’s take of 131 moose in the Wrangell-Petersburg area was down by 10 kills from last year’s harvest.
But 131 was still good enough to rank as the third-highest harvest on record for the area, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
The season ran Sept. 15 to Oct. 15.
Last year’s take of 141 moose in the Wrangell-Petersburg area was a record, passing the previous high of 132 in 2021, according to Fish and Game. The five-year average is just over 120 moose a year.
Of this season’s 131 moose, 120 were legal and 11 illegal, mostly bulls with the wrong number of brow tines. Hun...
Reader Comments(0)