Alaska Department of Fish and Game staff tagged 13 moose in the Chilkat Valley last week.
But those tags are different from the ones they’ve been putting on moose for the last seven years.

During a meeting at the Haines library, area management biologist Hannah Manninen said Fish and Game staff are making the switch from VHF to GPS collars.

This isn’t the first year that staff have used GPS collars, but Manninen said this…

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