(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) (left) Austin Finnan and Wildlife Trooper Josh Whitby describe an antler shape during a pre-season hunting meeting on Thursday, Sept. 11, 2025, at the American Bald Eagle Foundation in Haines, Alaska.

Twenty-four bull moose, including two illegal animals, were harvested by the end of the fall moose hunting season that started on Sept. 15. 

The hunt was open for the full season, through Oct. 7, and so far it looks as…

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...