(Rashah McChesney/Chilkat Valley News) Steve Kroschel, founder and owner of the Kroschel Films Wildlife Center talks about the impact of being closed to the public after his USDA license to operate lapsed on August 5, 2024, in Mosquito Lake, Alaska.

Ten months after the state raided a Chilkat Valley wildlife facility, and owner Steve Kroschel left for Russia, the fate of some 20 animals left behind by state troopers and wildlife regulators has still not…

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...