BC moose hunting history

[twoSevenO]

I'm not clear ... why were there no moose prior to 1900?? Where did they arrive from and do we know why they migrated into the area?

Very interesting. Something I never thought about. I always assumed they've been here a long time.

[IPA]

There is no totems or oral stories of moose in native culture that’s is documented.
There is also no evidence of use of moose parts found in any discovered midden piles or settlements.
You can’t tell me that they would not have used the antlers and hide from a moose the same as they used the parts off deer and elk?
I can’t see how they can justify there claims on moose as a traditional food source.

[180grainer]

I was referring to a program that attempts to understand the real issue and not point fingers at the perceived issue. These threads just manifest hate and offer no solutions.

Here's a solution or at least a step in the right direction. All FN must account for what they harvest so that proper game management can take that into account when deciding quotas for the following year. There's a constructive suggestion. Simply report what is being taken. What say you?

[180grainer]

I was referring to a program that attempts to understand the real issue and not point fingers at the perceived issue. These threads just manifest hate and offer no solutions.

Here's another constructive suggestion. Perhaps do away with the "Priority vs Privileged" nonsense that's developed. The people who are given a priority have no vested interest to ensure hunt-able numbers for all. In fact, and as alluded too, they may actually sabotage the ability for others to hunt guaranteeing their own access. In fact, by using this type of binary thinking in which people are appointed and assigned to "teams", simply based on their race, you can be assured that racism will manifest out of that from both sides and sets them up to compete instead of cooperate. What say you?

[RyoTHC]

You NEVER had a CASE ? UNLESS ?? are you a FN person ? RJ

That or a socialist.

[180grainer]

Exactly J
ager. My Gramps cowboyed the Alexis Cr. Hanceville area during WWI and for a few years thereafter. He was involved in the first moose kill in memory in that area in either 1919 or 1920, It was shot by a white cowboy/trapper the Indians have no hereditary claim to moose in the Chilcotin plain and simple.

If the FN want hereditary claim to anything they should go back over the Bering Land Bridge and talk to their relatives in Mongolia.

[robert05]

Srupp you are right on. In 60's I used to visit Chezecut and the ranchers in the area and they said the same thing, no moose until the '20s. Natives in the Chilcotin did not and do not have a name in their language for moose.
it is not being racist to ask for native harvest numbers, anything but. There will Be no proper moose management
until this happens.

puddlejumber get your head out of the sand, there is tons of evidence.

[180grainer]

Puddlejumper seems to have gone dark.

[358mag]

Puddlejumper seems to have gone dark.

Sometimes the truth hurts .

[Ohwildwon]

Lots of evidence on the Moose Population Migration into the Chilcotin 100+ - years ago

Would be cool if someone did a thesis!

Know of any University bound, biologist (to be) hunter, looking for a goal?

Love how scientists and the type love to throw out the, "Anecdotal" when their narrative, starts going sideways

The dark side is that people get fed up with all the inequality, regs, becoming beyond ridiculous.

Gaurantee people will just start poaching more and more, with there own moral justification