Division of Alaska State Troopers. The mission of the Division of Alaska State Troopers is to preserve the peace, enforce the law, prevent and detect crime, and protect life and property. Someone is stealing roadkill moose from the side of Alaska highways. Stealing roadkill moose is illegal, Alaska State Troopers spokeswoman Megan Peters wrote in an email. The program has. General information about Moose in Alaska such as description, life. (2001) with a harvest of about 40 moose/year; 15C: 2,981 (2001) with a harvest of about 214 moose/year. Annual roadkill is high, about 98 in 15A, 59 in 15B, and 86 in 15C. The harvest in 2007 was 144 moose.No effects from the nonlethal program were apparent on the moose.
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Alaska Moose Federation
My mother texts me four photos of a dead moose the week I leave Alaska. It is freshly hit. The pebbled pink brains fanning across the pavement have not yet grayed in the brisk autumn air. The animal will not go to waste. For the past 50 years, Alaska has been the only state where virtually every piece of large roadkill is eaten.
Alaska Moose Roadkill Program Fish And Game
Every year, between 600 and 800 moose are killed in Alaska by cars, leaving up to 250,000lb of organic, free-range meat on the road. State troopers who respond to these collisions keep a list of charities and families who have agreed to drive to the scene of an accident at any time, in any weather, to haul away and butcher the body.