What is the Alaska State land mammal?

The Moose is our state land mammal. The moose was made the official Alaska land mammal on May 1, 1998. It took us awhile to think of what animal we wanted to have represent the state. Well, they are big, muscular, hairy, and have the brain the size of pea- I wonder who thought the Moose was a good representative? Moose can be found from the Unuk River in Southeast to the Arctic Slope but are most abundant in second-growth birch forests, on timberline plateaus and along major rivers of South-central and the Interior of Alaska. ... more