Unusually heavy snows in Southcentral Alaska this year are hurting moose populations. Gary Olsen is executive director of the Moose Federation. He says snow conditions are forcing moose into dangerous situations.
Normally, feeding moose is illegal, but yesterday, state Fish and Game Department officials issued Olsen’s group permission to divert moose away from dangerous situations. Olsen says his group is working with large landowners to plow trails for moose and to find places to set up feeding stations for the ungulates.
The moose federation plans to plow moose trails to feeding areas to keep the animals away from dangerous roadways.
APTI Reporter-Producer Ellen Lockyer started her radio career in the late 1980s, after a stint at bush Alaska weekly newspapers, the Copper Valley Views and the Cordova Times. When the Exxon Valdez ran aground in Prince William Sound, Valdez Public Radio station KCHU needed a reporter, and Ellen picked up the microphone.
Since then, she has literally traveled the length of the state, from Attu to Eagle and from Barrow to Juneau, covering Alaska stories on the ground for the AK show, Alaska News Nightly, the Alaska Morning News and for Anchorage public radio station, KSKA
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