My church used to do moose recovery until the Alaska Moose Federation convinced the State that churches and non-profits were doing an inadequate job.

I asked one of our elders who used to get moose meat regularly when we recovered a roadkill, when was the last time you got any roadkill moose? She says she hasn't gotten any from the AMF, even though I personally put her on the list. I checked. She's still on it but under AMF's weighting system, she doesn't score high enough apparently to receive a bit of moose once in three years. If we ever get a moose, she'll get part of ours.

So, I'm not surprised that people are taking matters into their own hands. Just because you're not on welfare doesn't mean you can hunt and it doesn't mean you might not need food assistance. The moose are supposed to belong to all of us, not just whomever the AMF favors with their quota system.