How Moose are Colonizing Southeast Alaska

Ice Moose

 Moose are relative newcomers to Southeast Alaska. At least the ones that are here now. It is theorized that moose used to be here but went locally extinct, and recently a different subspecies of moose has moved in through the major river valleys like the Stikine near Petersburg and the Taku near Juneau. If you want to look deeper into the science and DNA research of our moose take a look at this interesting article from the Alaska Wildlife News.

 
The fact that they are just now slowly colonizing means seeing them on one of our trips is a rare experience. Even for us running the trips it may be a once a season kind of sighting. Up in Homer and Denali we encountered moose around every corner, but here it is a rare thing indeed. So you can imagine our surprise when two moose were spotted just above where we had anchored near Lamplugh Glacier in Glacier Bay National Park. One took a stroll out onto some ice before calmly sitting down to take a rest.

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