My Thoughts: to increase…

My Thoughts: to increase the herd, a minimum 5 year "No Cow, No calf-Bulls only" hunt with a similar # of bull tags issued as there is now.
I like the point system as discussed for those who haven't been successful in the draw to get a sliding preferential chance.
Mandatory reporting-which is finally coming on now. Harvest or no harvest, but mandatory.
The government of the day needs to be pressured to allocate monitoring funding using knowledgeable people, using accepted techniques, uniformly across core moose areas. If a regional bio decides to use different #'s, they better be able to justify, not just "I feel that..." and change the #'s. I see new bios having issues telling moose tracks from wolf tracks from the air.
No point in flying the moose surveys if conditions aren't correct-just wasting money guessing on what you're seeing, or bad timing resulting in "off" numbers.
Management planning is a long term effort and government is a short term in position. Real need is required to follow through with the planning, if it is ever to work-any new government of the day needs to have the fortitude to carry on with the current plan until an appropriate timeframe has passed that states a yea or nay on whether that plan has or is working. Changing planning techniques is a huge waste of time and money with no concrete results if it become change for changes sake.