No mention of taking the bear meat?
They didn’t want to take the chance with trichinosis?
I’d be worrying about prion disease, myself, with the moose.
Yeah, I’m not big on wild game just from the taste, let alone all the diseases and parasites.
Heck, I don’t really like lamb without it being saturated in mint condiments.
In any case, that means more for the rest of you...
Big boars are not that great, I am told.
Besides, I think they are prohibited from taking the meat on a defense of life and property kill.
My son killed a bear and it had a tag warning not to eat the meat . He was a problem bear and had been tranquilized several times????
I ate bear heart once and it was very sweet.
Maybe with all the hangups on meat you should consider becoming a vegan. IMHO
I used to live there. In the early 1990’s I diagnosed a young man with trichinosis from eating undercooked grizzly bear. He was hospitalized for 3 weeks, damn near died, lost 100 lbs of muscle, and had to give up his construction job for something less strenuous.
He was the only person I encountered in 26 years up there who ate grizzly bear.
Later that year three members of a family from Gambell Island in the Bering Straits was diagnosed with trichinosis from eating fermented walrus flipper. Yum!
The article did mention this, which leads one to believe they did take the bear meat.
"They were already busy with the hard work of skinning the bear and dressing out the moose."
"The friends could not follow the second round wound channel, because the head, skin, and paws had to be turned in."
Unless you’re buying your meat from an organic farmer, you’re getting a lot worse stuff at your local grocer.