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Nevada's first big-game moose hunt will be tiny as unusual southern expansion defies climate change

Mar. 24, 2024 00:06 AM EDT

RENO, Nev. (AP) — In what will be a tiny big-game hunt for some of the largest animals in North America, Nevada is planning its first-ever moose hunting season this fall. Wildlife managers say explosive growth in Nevada moose numbers over the past five years, increasing to a...

Seavey now has the most Iditarod wins, but Alaska's historic race is marred by 3 sled dog deaths

Mar. 13, 2024 01:20 AM EDT

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Alaska's annual Iditarod dog sled race ended with a victory for the ages: One of the biggest names in the sport came from behind after a moose attack to win the grueling, dayslong contest for an unprecedented sixth time. But Dallas Seavey's record-setting...

Iditarod issues time penalty to Seavey for not properly gutting moose that he killed on the trail

Mar. 06, 2024 20:10 PM EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — Iditarod officials on Wednesday imposed a two-hour time penalty on musher Dallas Seavey for not properly gutting the moose he killed during the race earlier this week. Race marshal Warren Palfrey convened a three-person panel of race officials to...

5-time Iditarod champion Dallas Seavey kills and guts a moose that got entangled with his dog team

Mar. 04, 2024 19:56 PM EST

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) — A veteran musher had to kill a moose after it injured his dog shortly after the start of this year’s Iditarod, race officials said Monday. Dallas Seavey informed the officials with the Iditarod Trail Sled Dog Race early Monday morning that he was forced...

Warm weather forces park officials to suspend Isle Royale wolf count for first time in decades

Feb. 01, 2024 16:31 PM EST

A stretch of unusually warm weather has forced federal officials to suspend researchers' annual wolf-moose count in Isle Royale National Park for the first time in more than six decades. Isle Royale is a 134,000-acre (54,200-hectare) island situated in far western Lake Superior...