I am pleased that we are…

I am pleased that we are looking into the moose issues, although this year we (our group) did not receive a tag in our WMU 13 as we normally do or in our second area of 15b.

Why do you not follow the deer process as it has been a successful achievement to date. Antlered or antlered-less seems to have worked out well for the deer populations. This allows a hunter to take an antlered-less (Doe or fawn).

As a prudent hunter and conservationist, I would take a fawn before a doe (with a fawn) or a dry doe (without a fawn). As I did this last year, seen a lot of doe with fawns before we took a doe without a fawn.

I have noticed that when you draw a cow and the calf season is over you end up taking a cow and the calf is left to defend itself from wolves, bears, coyotes and what ever else that can and will takes it life over the fall and winter months. That is a great loss and shame as the cow could have been bred by a bull already and now you are taking two or three maybe even up to 4 animals (twins) out in one animal.

Still using a draw system to receive a moose licence is a great way to go as I understand that there are more hunters than moose.

I believe that party hunting and having minimum size groups in the party would also help ensure that more people could hunt each year. If we go with the proposed method we could make party hunting a thing of the past as it would be only the one hunter who wins the lottery and draws a tag. They could then decide to be the only one hunting the moose. Moose hunting should be encouraged to be a party hunt as one moose is too much meat for a single hunter or small family.

If the population is so low in an areas, why not shut down the hunting for a couple years in that WMU and or target the predators in that area to include poachers.

Please continue to monitor and manage our moose populations.

Thank you,

Ross