6 wasn't cooperating. The moose poop was scattered 30 feet along the icy, sloping driveway. That's why Lee Carpenter noticed it Tuesday as he rumbled his big Arctic Express Towing and Recovery rig past a neighbor's house on Kantishna Drive in Eagle River just before it hits Monte Road. The afternoon sky is oppressively gray, the forest a drab blend of browns and grays. High winds born in the Pacific have carried yet another mass of warming air into Anchorage.
Thick clouds push against the landscape, darkening winter's already short and weakly sunlit days.
Anchorage moose may seem at ease munching willows in Kincaid Park or strolling suburban streets, but science suggests the city moose live with twice the stress as their rural counterparts. Yet more wild pigeons descended from the blustery sky over downtown Anchorage. They landed near a cage baited with cracked corn on the roof of the Alaska Center for the Performing Arts, at least six stories above Sixth Avenue right across from City Hall. Not Alaska's chickadees Imagine using all that Thanksgiving turkey, stuffing and pie just to keep warm tonight. Then imagine doing it all over again tomorrow.