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The number of elk hunt permits issued for Zarembo Island will be doubled next year, from one elk bull available for harvest to two. It’s a slow climb after the state shut down elk hunting on the island from 2006 to 2023, then allowing just one permit per year in 2024 and 2025. The Alaska Department of Fish and Game has been able to develop a better understanding of Zarembo’s elk population, and believes the herd can handle the additional harvest, said Frank Robbins, the Petersburg-based game biologist for the Wrangell-Petersburg area. The Wra...
European green crabs, a particularly invasive species known for aggressively displacing native species and damaging important vegetation, have been found on Etolin Island just southwest of Wrangell. A monitoring effort that spans much of Southeast is working to identify and possibly mitigate their continued spread northward. The crabs were first found in Metlakatla in the summer of 2022. Since then, they've been found increasingly farther north, with Etolin Island the northernmost confirmed...
