Skip to comments.
Roadkill moose program in Alaska puts meat on tables of poor people
Rocky Mountain News ^
| 26 Dec 01
| Rachel D'Oro
Posted on 12/26/2001 8:08:03 AM PST by real saxophonist
click here to read article
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
To: real saxophonist
Say "CHEESE"!
To: real saxophonist
To: real saxophonist
Real hunters don't use guns.
To: Species8472; RightWhale
ping
5
posted on
12/26/2001 8:17:56 AM PST
by
kayak
To: real saxophonist
As long as they don't hurt Bullwinkle, I guess it's OK.
To: real saxophonist
A lifetime hunter, Dickerson estimated the 1,100-pound animal would yield 700 pounds of meat. That's nothing. I was driving through Wisconsin and hit a 1200-pound cheese once.
7
posted on
12/26/2001 8:19:55 AM PST
by
LJLucido
To: kayak
To: RedBloodedAmerican
This is obviously a
fresh-water moose. The real thrill is to go out in the blue water and go for
deep-sea moose. Nothing is more exciting than to hear the first mate call out
"Antlers in the surf!"... and you let out your line with some salt-water moose bait on it.
Somehow, even a really big string of fresh-water moose seems dull by comparison.
To: LJLucido
Guy I worked with was on his way to work in Juneau. Came up on a moose laying down, resting in the middle of the road. He couldn't go around him because of the snow. He honked, bumped him; tried everything he could think of, the moose wouldn't budge. Finally backed up to where he could turn around, went home and "called in moose".
On another note, these people are nuts. That moose will trample them if upset
To: real saxophonist
Roadkill moose program in Alaska puts meat on tables of poor people
This is a title that says to me...
...MOVE ON! MOVE ALONG! SAVE YOUR STOMACH!
Dan
11
posted on
12/26/2001 8:25:57 AM PST
by
BibChr
To: capt. norm
To: real saxophonist
So now you can get "government moose" to go with your "government cheese?"
To: kayak
3 moose, about 2 years old, moved through the yard yesterday about 9 AM. They hung out in the trees across the driveway for a long time, and then when they moved they wasted no time. Skittish. Largish, dark fur, which bucks the trend lately of lighter coloring, and one was sprouting a small rack, so he won't make it much past summer even if traffic doesn't get him sooner.
To: real saxophonist
Those averages put the state behind only Sweden, where 4,000 to 6,000 moose are
road casualties each year, according to the Alaska Department of Fish and Game.
HEY PETA!!!
Wanna' do some real good?
Get over to the Socialist "Cradle-To-Grave" Society of Sweden!
You've got some work to do there!
15
posted on
12/26/2001 9:04:39 AM PST
by
VOA
To: RightWhale
They hung out in the trees...Now I've heard of bears in trees, and cats in trees, but I have never heard of moose in trees. The next time a moose bites my sister, I'll tell her to chase it towards a tree, then I'll let loose the dogs to keep him up there.
FReegards,
16
posted on
12/26/2001 9:06:22 AM PST
by
VMI70
To: RedBloodedAmerican
On another note, these people are nuts. That moose will trample them if upset
Agreed.
The only more insane I've personally witnessed was a couple of people basically doing
the same thing with Buffaloe...cows with young, no less!
Somehow, they happened upon the most docile buffalo cows in the Wichita Mountains Preserve
in southwest Oklahoma.
17
posted on
12/26/2001 9:07:09 AM PST
by
VOA
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Uh, oh! Here we go. Think we'll make it to 150?
18
posted on
12/26/2001 9:07:40 AM PST
by
VMI70
To: real saxophonist
A moose bit my sister once....no really...
To: RedBloodedAmerican
Regarding your response that "real hunters don't use guns." You are right. They use cars! Anyone who drives the interstates can attest to the animals wiped out by drivers each year. Most of the animals go to waste as most states make it a crime to pick up a road killed animal. I've watched the program in Alaska in action. It works. I've watched the deer in my state rot beside the highway because the game dept. will not allow me to salvage them for the needing.
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-20, 21 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson