Thoughts on the shortage of moose.

[Vladimir Poutine]

Stop all cow/calf draws for a specified period. In some MUs in Region 3 the # of bull LEH were reduced because of poor numbers. Hunters accept that. Last year in 3-39, there were only about 9 or so draws for bull in November. That has been consistent over the years. The numbers seen by in 3-39 have been poor over the last 4-5 years. Lots of wolf activity. There's no disputing that. So last year to our pleasure we saw a decent number of big bulls in 39. It's our home region and we spend a lot of time there. So what does MOE do this year? 20 LEH for bull in November. In one year they more than double the LEH. In 3-40 they tripled the # of bull draws about 3-4 years ago. Well it's working. Nary a one to be seen anymore in 40. It's madness. MOE is taking lessons from DFO in my opinion. Policy is made with a blindfold and a dartboard.

[wideopenthrottle]

all the heavily logged beetle kill areas need to have some measures to control access....as others have said, 1500lb 7-8 foot tall moose can't hide very well in cutovers...

[HarryToolips]

Fixed it for you. And if the natives keep shooting moose cows it kills 12 animals in a 10 year period. Stewarts of the land alright.

And this is one of the big problems, road-deactivation is a key tool, but costs $$$$...obviously we don't want all roads deactivated, but a percentage of spur roads would be great..hard for them to hunt out of their overloaded station wagon when they can't get past the churned up road..

[skibum]

would you give up your moose hunt today, so that your kids. your grandkids, could hunt them tomorrow.

Most hunters are conservationists. I don't think many would have a problem if the number of tags were reduced or eliminated to save the population.

[Drillbit]

Saw a calf moose the other day. Hadn't seen one in 3 or 4 years before that. That is the problem.

More people have to hunt bear, cougar and wolf. Never mind the eat what I kill crap, and kill something that is eating the moose calves.


Too many guys make a road trip for moose, but never make the trip to hunt predators where they go for moose.

[.308SLAYER]

Last week alone I seen 6 different moose during the week while out looking for another bear. One nice looking calf with it mom, 3 cows by themselves each time and a young bull moose still with its mom

[.308SLAYER]

Also been seeing quite a bit of wolf scat on the roads here in region 8 I've had two friends both get a wolf each this past winter one male one female not looking good lots of bears and wolves out there I agree with drillbit there needs to be more predator control well see numbers improve

[.308SLAYER]

[steel_ram]

If indeed, reducing my opportunities would prove to help moose populations recovery I would accept it. We can all point fingers all day at others, it's our way. Of course every other resource user would be expected to cooperate in turn.

[Xenomorph]

That's awesome, look at momma