A man stands in front of an enclosure feeding willow branches to a moose.
Steve Kroschel calls his moose, Duck Moses, over for a quick snack. (Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News)

It’s about 10 a.m. Tuesday morning and Steve Kroschel is getting ready to feed and water the 66 animals at the Kroschel Films Wildlife Center in Mosquito Lake. 

It’s quiet. The bustle of the previous day’s four groups of cruise ship tourists fades into the distance as he considers what he’ll do with the rest of the 2024 tourism…

Rashah McChesney is a multimedia journalist and editor who has reported and edited newsrooms from the Deep South to the Midwest to Alaska. For the past decade, she has worked in collaborative news as the...