Reason number 3,574 why I love Alaska
Monday, January 23, 2012 at 10:00PM 
This headline from the Anchorage Daily News pretty much sums it up:
"85-year-old woman wields shovel to stop moose stomping."
But it leaves out one important detail: 85-year-old Dorothea Taylor's shovel-swinging likely saved the life of her 82-year-old husband George Murphy. Here's the slightly longer description: "An agitated moose ran down and stomped a well-known Bush pilot from Willow, but he was saved when his wife grabbed a shovel from their pickup truck and whacked the big animal until it backed off."
Equally impressive? Their compassion for the offending moose. Per the ADN:
It might just have been stressed from an especially harsh winter, with extreme cold temperatures and heavy snow.
"They don't actually have a heckuva lot to eat," Murphy said.
"And they don't have enough stamina," Taylor said.
"They're just at the end of their rope," Murphy said. "They'll just strike out at anything."
He is not upset with the moose. Neither is his wife. They don't want anyone to try to kill it. No one could be sure they got the right one, anyway.
Yup.